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Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
Long projects can obviously have high returns, but what have you done in less than, say, 5-10 hours, that’s had an outsized (positive) impact in your life? Can be in terms of satisfaction, or something more pragmatic.
Couple examples for me:
- writing a blog post
- learning countries of the world and their locations
- buffaloo 7y agoProbably more like 30 hours, but learning to touch type has been a tremendous benefit.
- quickthrower2 7y agoLeaving unsatisfactory jobs is probably the biggest one. Also touch typing although I’m still getting used to doing it properly. Learning Haskell, ok took more than 5 hrs but takes 5 to get started!
- jxub 7y agoGoing through vimtutor two times increased my editing speed significantly.
- elamje 7y agoLearning Clojure and Emacs from the free online book Clojure for the Brave and True! I can’t imagine second order effects learning a lisp will have on my life! I think about coding completely differently even though I have barely written anything sizable in Clojure.