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.<p>Couple examples for me:
- writing a blog post
- learning countries of the world and their locations
Learning Clojure and Emacs from the free online book Clojure for the Brave and True!<p>I can’t imagine second order effects learning a lisp will have on my life!<p>I think about coding completely differently even though I have barely written anything sizable in Clojure.
Leaving unsatisfactory jobs is probably the biggest one.<p>Also touch typing although I’m still getting used to doing it properly.<p>Learning Haskell, ok took more than 5 hrs but takes 5 to get started!