Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
I found that (for me !) it was less useful to invest in learning to do new things, as opposed to investing in being more efficient and &#x2F; or having my work time more pleasant.<p>Make your work feel like pleasure and there is no limit to what you can achieve. So maybe don&#x27;t only think &quot;what can I be better at ?&quot; but also &quot;how can my life be better while I work ?&quot;.<p>Software:<p>A proper training session with a high level debugger for a language I wasn&#x27;t used to, debuggers often have esoteric interface and &quot;hidden&quot; features, but learning to use them comfortably will make your life so much easier and pleasant.<p>Buying a license for a good IDE (in my case, intellij). I use vs code 70% of my time but when I need to work on more complex pieces of code or debugging it just change your life.<p>Hardware:<p>Buying a proper &quot;high quality&quot; laptop, notably the screen (real matte screen because screw glares, and 2k&#x2F;3k&#x2F;4k resolution because you look at text all day so crystal clear font rendering matters a lot).<p>A great chair with proper support because my back hurting at the end of every day is not ok.<p>A switchable sitting &#x2F; standing desk ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonomous.ai&#x2F;product&#x2F;standing-desk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonomous.ai&#x2F;product&#x2F;standing-desk</a> ).<p>Quality noise cancelling headphones (Bose QC 35).