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Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#41
Not necessarily a Productivity improvement, but invest into Ergonomics:

1) I like the Logitech MX Vertical ~100 USD

2) some mechanical or ergonomic keyboard

3) monitor

And your other colleagues/ customers will thank you: decent camera and even more important, a good microphone for the meetings were you cannot walk around a lot.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Faster internet. A few bucks added to your monthly bill. A few bucks? Yeah, right.

On civilised countries without cartels such as the US, yes.

Canadian duopoly reporting in...

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#43
Maybe take an adventure or experience that leaves you with utter awe

If you have access to a community with thinkers you respect: put up a challenge where you thoroughly detail the music/ books/ideas that changed your life or strongly empower your perception of it. If somebody recommends another worthy one they win the prize. But the important detail with this plan is that this would only work if the community already gets joy out of doing the recommendation by itself for free. The money is more just an excuse to start a “contest”

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#44
This one is free, but if you're on a mac try using amethyst wm[1], firefox with tridactyl[2] and keep work in the cli with something like tmux.

I've been experimenting with it for a week and I'm amazed how much not reaching for the mouse keeps me in the flow. If you're on linux obviously something like i3wm would work the same

[1] https://ianyh.com/amethyst/ [2] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#45

This one is free, but if you're on a mac try using amethyst wm[1], firefox with tridactyl[2] and keep work in the cli with something like tmux. I've been experimenting with it for a week and I'm amazed how much not reaching for the mouse keeps me in the flow. If you're on linux obviously something like i3wm would work the same [1] https://ianyh.com/amethyst/ [2] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

You can absolutely spend $1000 on Tridactyl if you want [1] :)

The main reason Tridactyl is still developed is because some people pay for it. Without them, I wouldn't be able to afford to.

[1]: https://github.com/sponsors/bovine3dom

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#46

This one is free, but if you're on a mac try using amethyst wm[1], firefox with tridactyl[2] and keep work in the cli with something like tmux. I've been experimenting with it for a week and I'm amazed how much not reaching for the mouse keeps me in the flow. If you're on linux obviously something like i3wm would work the same [1] https://ianyh.com/amethyst/ [2] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

You can absolutely spend $1000 on Tridactyl if you want [1] :) The main reason Tridactyl is still developed is because some people pay for it. Without them, I wouldn't be able to afford to. [1]: https://github.com/sponsors/bovine3dom

Good point! Thanks for all the effort! Btw do you have some notification when someone mentions the project?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can absolutely spend $1000 on Tridactyl if you want [1] :) The main reason Tridactyl is still developed is because some people pay for it. Without them, I wouldn't be able to afford to. [1]: https://github.com/sponsors/bovine3dom

Good point! Thanks for all the effort! Btw do you have some notification when someone mentions the project?

You're welcome! Tridactyl has lots of contributors so I shouldn't take all the credit : )

I do use a notification service: https://f5bot.com/

It's _really_ useful for hearing about bugs or issues that I would otherwise miss.

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