Changing duvet covers! I learned the Burrito Method [1] and never looked back. When I send this to people, the reactions vary from "OMG WHAT YOU CHANGED MY LIFE" to "you srsly didn't know that?"<p>[1] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPfudNNd8Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPfudNNd8Y</a>
My meta-answer is <i>growing up in a tightly age-delineated cohort</i> so that I wasn't being corrected all along by people 5-10 years older than me when I was doing things wrong my whole life.
Thinking intrinsic value of achievements matters more than extrinsic<p>I'll give an example: in getting a degree, seeking out the hardest classes and struggling to get a 3.8, or seeking out the easiest classes and getting a 4.0<p>The average recruiter is stupid and will only see the 4.0. It's much harder to communicate the value of taking the harder classes<p>I personally find this kind of depressing. It discourages people from actual learning and nudges them towards only caring about mere appearances
I learned I've been tying my shoelaces the wrong way my whole life! After discovering the "Ian Knot," my shoelace-tying game has improved tremendously.<p>It's a small change, but it made my daily routine a bit easier. It just goes to show that there's always something new to learn and improve upon, hehe!
I can't say that I have 'a thing', but one that I should have learned by now is that "being open to anything" doesn't get nearly as much done as "committing to doing <i>something</i>".<p>I like to do things in the moment but find I waste a lot of time on random/arbitrary things. This was good when I was learning so much. Now I consume so much information with so little adding to a base of relevant knowledge: like being on HN.
I recently learned that you're supposed to leave the toilet seat down to be gender inclusive, as woman feel unwelcome when it was left up.<p>I use to leave it up to show that I lifted it and left the toilets clean, unlike most men who are naturally stupid and gross because they're naturally uneducated.<p>So yeah, be gender inclusive and leave the toilet seat down.