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

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Post by 331c8c71 »

hypertexthero wrote: post #26

In the beginning of the day, don’t look at phone or computer. Avoid news especially, and instead write thoughts, draw something, work on a song, make something, anything. Don’t let day get sucked away with things that can’t be controlled. Excercise every day with “scientific 7 minute workout”. Also 20–40 minute walks or 100 basketball jump-shots. Draw daily, even a 5 minute drawing. Write daily, even for 5 minutes. P…

> Don't look at the phone or computer in the morning

Avoiding wasting time is okayish but it pales in comparison to the state where you are naturally drawn to doing things that you consider to be more important.

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

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Post by randcraw »

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like:

- Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter.

- Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental.

- Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer.

- Develop musically, maybe even play the myriad instruments I've accumulated over the years. Ideally, in an ensemble.

- Find others with similar interests to hang with offline.

- Stay actively curious and engaged.

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

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Post by Zdechlak »

Habits > Motivation - Develop a set of habits and behaviors that force me to work on my side projects everyday even if for just 5 minutes. The sporadic bursts of motivation that push me into the hyperfocus mode are actually useless if I can’t finish the project and it’s 80% done in perpetuity.

Networking - I find it really hard to approach random people and finding any connection.

Sales - finding and converting clients is a must if I am to seriously consider doing freelance engineering or entrepreneurship.

Do you guys think it’s worth reaching out to a professional coach wrt the points listed above?

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

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Post by ravenstine »

I'm going to be working on poetry this next year (something I've already started), and I will be taking a life drawing class starting in January.

Honestly, I'm just tired of taking on technical skills. It might be better for my career, but I'm sick of hobbies and interest that encourage me to be solitary.

Oh, but most importantly, I want to develop my relationship skills. My romantic life has had its ups and downs, but it's mostly been in the pits for the last decade, and I've realized that I have both relationship skills to develop as well as emotional repression I need to work on. I want to have a family someday and am afraid I may never will at this point, so it's important to me that I can be a good husband and father someday. In other words, I've been more of a scared boy than I thought I was, and I need to fix that.

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

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Post by mikhmha »

Swimming! I started going 2x a week. I took lessons as a kid but hated it due to a fear of water after a traumatic experience in the deep-end. I don't have that fear anymore and I really enjoy it now. I can tread water! And I can float! The mechanics of swimming and floating make a lot of sense to me now. Now I'm swimming laps to find a technique that lets me swim the longest for the least amount of energy. Mostly I copy the techniques of older folks who are also swimming laps in the lanes next to me. lol.

I figure if the game I'm working on doesn't pan out then I'll go become a sailor or something. I think thats what I'm training for, potential career change.

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

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Post by friedtofu »

randcraw wrote: post #112

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like: - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter. - Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental. - Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer. - Develop musically, maybe even play the…

Nice. How old is the bike and how long has it been sitting? I recently tried to restore a old 92 Honda CBR600F2 that had also been sitting "far too long". Ended up spending almost as much as I paid for it due to my dumb butt leaving gas in it, ended up needing way more than its carbs cleaned out(surprise :p).

Called it quits at that point unfortunately although I am looking to get another bike for similar reasons, don't really care what kind as long as it isn't a hog if you have any recommendations!

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

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Post by mysterydip »

Ruby. I've done a range of languages, for example C, pascal, java, VB, PHP, javascript. But Ruby seems distinct from all of them in both syntax and concept (hashes, etc). I'd like to get to a point where I have a confidence that the programs I write are using efficient data structures and algorithms.

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

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

mysterydip wrote: post #118

Ruby. I've done a range of languages, for example C, pascal, java, VB, PHP, javascript. But Ruby seems distinct from all of them in both syntax and concept (hashes, etc). I'd like to get to a point where I have a confidence that the programs I write are using efficient data structures and algorithms.

Efficiency isn’t the goal of writing ruby. I think “thinking in ruby” can be expansive to you, but “how do I program efficient ruby” is actually antithetical to that.

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

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Post by loumf »

mikhmha wrote: post #116

Swimming! I started going 2x a week. I took lessons as a kid but hated it due to a fear of water after a traumatic experience in the deep-end. I don't have that fear anymore and I really enjoy it now. I can tread water! And I can float! The mechanics of swimming and floating make a lot of sense to me now. Now I'm swimming laps to find a technique that lets me swim the longest for the least amount of energy. Mostly I…

I am calling 2025 the Year to Just Keep Swimming to get me to do some simple things over and over, but also to get back into swimming.
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