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• Working with git instead of 10 folders called "version x"
• to read faster I first had to learn to read at all. I was always only scimming and skipping words and since I focused on retention and understanding I started to read better.
• or more general: I need to invest time to improve/ get good at things. There is no shortcut and talent alone only gets you so far. A nice body comes from putting work in. Learning languages comes with practice. Etc...
• listening to my body (still not good at it tho) and rest when I feel tired. I'd feel urged to do something and can't rest and end up burned out and need to rest anyways – but with brainfog and wasting my rest time on my phone or youtube...

Preparing as much as possible in the evening, really:

• breakfast: oats in the fridge
• clothes: picking clothes and putting them on the chair
• backpack: taking out the old lunch container and other things that I don’t need tomorrow
• shaving and showering

Only quick wash with a washcloth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and go

wait. so you want our things and your not going to tell us the better way to grind coffee.

You can turn honey into honey syrup by adding a tiiiiny amount of boiling water and stirring it (not in a plastic container!). It keeps a lot better without crystalizing, and you can put it in the fridge where the ants can't get to it. If it crystalizes before you get to it, you can use the same trick to get it back.

My tip for pouring viscous things like honey or molasses is to go slooooow and rotate the bottle if you need to reduce the size of the pour. In this case, I add the boiling water to the bottle to get the residue then pour it into the glass container, much like the pasta trick on this thread.

Now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

When trying to get the last bit of pasta sauce from a jar, don't bother with a rubber spatula/pot licker.

Generally you need to add a bit of water to the pot at some point anyway, because some of that moisture is boiling off. So instead, after you pour most of the sauce into the pot, add that water up front by putting a little bit to the jar, closing the lid and shaking, and now add that to the pot.

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In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.

Edit: someone beat me to it, haha

You can pull out the dishwasher cutlery basket and take it to the cutley drawer, instead of taking them one by one.

I have a Buick Century. If you push the lock doors button with the door open, it beeps three times at you and doesn't lock the doors, as if to say that's an invalid operation while the door is open. Press it again, and it locks the doors.

Turns out, if you press it once, get the beep code, shut the door, the car shines the headlights, corner lights and reverse lights for about ten seconds (so you can see to get in the house in the dark), and then when it shuts those off, it locks the doors. Why not just fucking lock them, I don't know.