Simon Willison’s Weblog

What are some productive things to do for 15 minutes a day?

15th January 2013

My answer to What are some productive things to do for 15 minutes a day? on Quora

Learn a foreign language—using DuoLingo on the iPhone, or with podcasts such as Coffee Break Spanish.

Posted 15th January 2013 at 1:25 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 - 5th August 2026

This is What are some productive things to do for 15 minutes a day? by Simon Willison, posted on 15th January 2013.

productivity 33 quora 1,005 duolingo 7

Next: Where can I find a calendar of tech events and conferences all over the world?

Previous: What should one bring on a trip to London?

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe