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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 luca_aurelia »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #87

Spanish! Been learning for about 4 months and just had my first opportunity to speak a lot, stayed with a spanish speaking family for 4 days. It went much worse than expected, I couldnt understand anything and spoke so slowly that I only had a few oppirtubities to join the conversation. So I hope by the end of 2025 ill be a little more fluent. Using a program called learncraft spanish currently and its been very very…

In-person Spanish teachers are pretty affordable in many Spanish-speaking countries — in my experience, often around 20 USD / hour. I was in Argentina for three months this year and got one-on-one lessons for two hours a day for $800/month.

One-on-one lessons are super fun because you can do whatever sounds interesting to you, and doing it in a Spanish-speaking country means it’s automatically in the target language. I would get ice cream with my teacher, go for walks, watch movies, read short stories, listen to music, browse meme pages, etc.

They can also go with you to turn errands like renting a car into learning experiences, or help you specifically prepare for an errand you need to run.

Not to mention all the other benefits of immersion, and it gives you an excuse to travel.

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

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Post by BadHumans »

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…

> 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.

This project looks great and the homepage does a great job at explaining what it does. Especially the slider. And it supports Firefox which is a rarity in this space. I think you should take pride in what you have accomplished from a communication perspective.

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

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Post by sandspar »

jawns wrote: post #23

One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and turn them around. That has been a valuable skill and has allowed me to develop a brand around it. However, that doesn't mean that I enjoy working with difficult people or cleaning up other people's messes. I find those people just as off-putting as everyone else; I just happen to be better at…

Maybe work with difficult high performers? Talented people who are difficult because they're brash rather than untalented people who are difficult because they're messy.

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

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Post by em-bee »

fm2606 wrote: post #99
linux2647 wrote: post #22

How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^

Just read the manual that comes with the child. /s All kidding aside, my kids are 16 and 19 and I am still trying to figure it out. Pretty sure it is a journey and not a destination.

we found that manual in "the baby book" by william and martha sears. it was really helpful in the first few years. the book promotes the idea of attachment parenting, which i feel is the right approach. but any parent should decide that for themselves. the general rule for parenting advice though is to only apply advice that makes sense to you. don't let anyone pressure you into doing anything you don't agree with.

i think you'll never stop figuring things out as your kids grow. not with the first few anyways. i guess repetition only comes in with the fourth child or so ;-)

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

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Post by physicles »

delichon wrote: post #52

I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for…

If you’ve thought a lot about shoelaces, I assume you’ve seen https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/. I switched to a square knot a few years ago and my shoes basically never come untied.

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

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Post by toolslive »

The decisions were made more than a year ago, but the goals should be reached in 2025. Nothing special, but I just have to put in the work

  - Running: I want to run a marathon under 4h in 2025. My smartwatch currently predicts 4:01:20 (was 4:30 beginning of the year)
  - Chess: I want to improve my FIDE rating to 2100 (I'm at 2050 now and was 1930 in 2023)
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