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Ask HN: What Should I Do With One Hour Of Free Time Per Day?
6 points by tronium 4390 days ago
I have approximately 1 hour of free time scheduled in during my very busy summer, and I'm wondering what sort of productive/programming/money-making thing(s) I should spend my time on? For instance, is that enough time to say, develop an app fully in during the summer?
6 comments

Borrowing from Richard Hamming via Paul Graham--

* What are the most important problems in your field?

* Are you working on one of them?

* Why not?

An hour a day all summer is enough time to develop an app. However I am not sure this qualifies as "productive" or "money-making!"

In seriousness, it depends a lot on where you are in your life, and what your goals are. I would give very different advice to a student on summer break than I would to someone in the working world and with a family.

You mentioned that your summer will be very busy, so how about using that one hour a day to just relax?! :)
I agree! Read a book, take a drink, smoke a cigar. Sit back and enjoy where you have gotten so far in life. If you don't stop to enjoy it then what is the point?
If you're busy all summer, relax for that one hour a day. :) Take a walk, go for a cycle, have fun!
Learn something new. Spend one hour a day messing with code. Or watching up to 2 or 3 video tutorials. Or reading one hour of a programming book a day.
You most definitely have enough time to develop an app