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Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?

7 points by lswainemoore ↗ HN
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

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quickthrower2
Leaving 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
Going through vimtutor two times increased my editing speed significantly.
elamje
Learning 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.