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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by punkspider »

Mental endurance and discipline to better handle tasks that require sustained focus, especially those I instinctively resist or dismiss, whether because I dislike them or I downplay their importance. Examples are thinking through unfamiliar and difficult problems or reading dense documentation and contracts.

I also want to improve my prioritization skills to better judge which challenging tasks truly deserve my time and mental energy, and which ones don't.

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by sunday_serif »

Writing blog posts and being ok with them not being perfect.

I often have an idea for a post that would be interesting, but then as a learn more about the topic in order to write, I start to realize how much I don’t know. At this point, the post either dies or I spend way too long learning every irrelevant detail until I feel like I know enough.

So I think the skill I am trying to learn is writing as a non-expert. Learning to write in a tone that makes it ok to not know everything. Writing in a tone that conveys my experience and understanding, but doesn’t try to be an authority on the subject.

Writing is a tough skill!

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by itsmemattchung »

Non-technical skills

* (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as a way to test and grow my mental fortitude.

Technical skills

* UI Design - as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others

* Photography and videography - want to increase my current level(s) since I started a YouTube channel documenting my dance journey and also create little reels for community events

* (maybe) Rust or C++

[0] - Example of dance related YouTube shorts I make: https://youtube.com/shorts/cI2LAe-MMrw

Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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Post by toddmorey »

Alex-Programs wrote: post #2

Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context. I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham than purple prose. Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it in order for my project ( https://nuenki.app ) to succeed. Time management. I'm ve…

Ok, you say you are bad at marketing but the Nuenki homepage is one of the best I've seen. The product and benefits are so clearly explained. Well done.

You may eventually want a small project to create a recognizable logo (think how much mileage Duolingo has got from their little owl fellah).

One thing I often see with SaaS offerings is no clear & simple concept / theme that separates the free and paid plans of a service. For Nuenki I would just lean into "works on mobile" being the clear value you get from the paid plan. Hopefully over time you can bring it to more mobile platforms with a small app or something.

Congrats on what you've built and hope to see more growth in 2025! Great idea well executed.

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