Ask HN: What's a mundane task you've deeply optimized for no reason?

2 peterzuck 0 6/28/2025, 1:18:23 AM

Not the “big wins” like taxes or time tracking — I’m talking about the weird small things. For example, I’ve fully optimized how I clean my desk cables. A friend of mine wrote a bash script just to open his daily playlists.

These things save maybe 30 seconds a day, but we obsess over them anyway.

What’s yours? Bonus if the effort was wildly disproportionate to the time saved.

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Ask HN: What's a mundane task you've deeply optimized for no reason?

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