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What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by war1025 »

astura wrote: post #65
tempsy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What crowd are you in where most people have all their money in a savings account? That is borderline financial suicide.

They have all their money in checking probably because they don't have nearly enough money to invest. Those people would be much better off learning to either spend less, earn more, and get out of debt instead of learning about how to invest hypothetical money that they'll never have with their habits. I certainly didn't know a damn thing about index funds, investments, stock markets, etc until I actually had the ext…

I have multiple friends that spend their money on junk they don't need because "It's better than earning half a percent interest in a bank account." And since that is their benchmark, they justify it all as a prudent financial practice.

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Post by happycube »

thomk wrote: post #140
melling wrote: post #89

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The book was released today. https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything... I wrote some educational apps for language learning. Are there techniques that I could use to help and motivate my users?

The book was released today but you can still buy a used copy on Amazon. Were those pre-releases or something? Odd.

ARC's aren't supposed to be listed... I'm not sure how many causal sellers that stops though.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by moneywoes »

melling wrote: post #89
ethanbond wrote: post #14

Taking this also as a bit of an Ask HN: Easily the Tiny Habits habit formation regime created by Stanford researcher BJ Fogg. A lot of the addictive design patterns you see in apps like Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are built off his research. Quite nefarious use of psychology for advertising/“engagement”, but the plus side is you can use the same strategies to build habits you want to build. Step 1: Consider the habit y…

The book was released today. https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything... I wrote some educational apps for language learning. Are there techniques that I could use to help and motivate my users?

Sounds just like the popular book Atomic habits, is it different?

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by ghaff »

rtpg wrote: post #125

Kinda weird to say that learning cooking takes an hour. Maybe learning one dish? I guess the nice thing would be to have actual articles that would show some principles in an hour

This is the sort of thing where video would probably work better. For the most part, you probably need to be at a certain level of skill before you could easily pick up a new cooking skill be just reading about it and trying it. (That's probably generally true of most things that have a strong physical component.)

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Post by abathur »

sowbug wrote: post #173
mathieubordere wrote: post #106

using `Ctrl + r` in your shell, I just hope someone reading this doesn't know it yet :-)

If you like this, you'll also like pushd/popd. Example: $ cd ~/src/app/foo/bar/baz $ pushd /etc/qux/quux/quuz/corge/grault/garply/waldo $ popd $ pwd /home/you/src/app/foo/bar/baz It's a stack of directories. You pushd the current directory on to the stack and cd to a new directory all in a single command, then you popd back to the previous directory (i.e., the one on the top of the stack). It's useful if you're jumpi…

It's not as robust as pushd/popd, and it may vary from shell to shell, but at least in bash you can also use "cd -" to change to the previous directory.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by Moodles »

JshWright wrote: post #92
Moodles wrote: post #23

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I did not write that you should only use index funds for everything. In fact I wrote you should follow the Reddit personal finance flowchart.

Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was reinforcing something you said.

My apologies for being too defensive.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by thraxil »

tempsy wrote: post #16
Moodles wrote: post #10

First aid is good. Also general investing in index funds like VTSAX and VTIAX. It is so simple, yet most people I run into on a regular basis just save their money in a checking account earning 0.01% APY. Follow the reddit personal finance flowchart. Learn about Roth and HSAs and ESPP and the benefits of diversification. We’re literally talking about multiples of your net-worth over your life if you invest compared t…

What crowd are you in where most people have all their money in a savings account? That is borderline financial suicide.

Probably most working class people in the US if they even have savings. In 2015, in the US, only 40% of the population spent less than they earned in a year and only 39% said that they could come up with $2k in an emergency: https://www.usfinancialcapability.org/downloads/NFCS_2015_Re...

Those numbers sound optimistic when I look at the rural, low income town that I grew up in where my family still lives.

If those numbers don't seem to match what you see in your social group, you probably live in a bubble.

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Post by mathieutd »

slowhand09 wrote: post #174

Learn how to get out of debt!!! Step 1: List your debts from smallest to largest regardless of interest rate. Step 2: Make minimum payments on all your debts except the smallest. Step 3: Pay as much as possible on your smallest debt. Step 4: Repeat until each debt is paid in full

I disagree with this. You should pay your higher interest rate debt first.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by RobertRoberts »

Say something good to someone that has been hard/impossible to say in the past. (learning to communicate by doing it)

Many people can just say how much they appreciate someone in their life or "I love you".

It may start to open up something in your relationship that either has been lost or missing.

It's hard to do, but a good exercise in fighting against self destruction and takes less than an hour.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by 77544cec »

caseyw wrote: post #159
jakobegger wrote: post #137

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OK, it's been about an hour. I learned the following: - there's a visual mode for selecting text - I can now yank and paste text in normal mode - I learned to use :split and :vsplit to open new files, and ctrl-w to switch between them - I learned a few new navigation commands - I learned that there's a replace mode (R) Definitely useful, and I hope I remember everything the next time I open vim! But I still feel like…

That's all good, but can you quit it? Sorry, had to be cheeky!

For those who don't get it: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
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