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The Cyrillic script is fairly easy to learn and will let you phonetically read a bunch of languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, and Serbian to name a few.) Each language has a few unique letters and pronunciation can vary slightly, but for the most part they are the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script
It tends to be hard-to-impossible to pronounce correctly for native English speakers.
If you have even a small amount of math talent, you should be able to grasp the key ideas in Bayes's Rule that quickly iff you read https://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule_guide .
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I remember learning these before but due to not finding any use case for them, I already forgot how to do them properly. Only thing I regularly tie nowadays are my shoelaces. EDIT: Grammar
> Only thing I regularly tie nowadays are my shoelaces. For that, in much less than an hour, you can learn the Ian Knot: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm It makes shoelace tying very fast and secure (the GIF at the top is how long it actually takes!).
A few examples:
1. Cooking jasmine rice: rinse it first, 1 c. water to 1 c. rice ratio. Bring to boil, turn down heat to lowest setting. Leave lid /the entire time/. Fluff the rice (look this up) when done. (about 12-15 min of cooking)
2. Baking a cake: (any square pan yellow cake) Read how baking powder actually works, then you realize you need to mix and bake quickly. Letting it sit before baking will make a flatter cake. Also, stick a butter knife in the middle to test when it's done, if it comes out with batter stuck on it, it needs a few more minutes.
3. Eggs: When frying, scrambling, put the eggs in warm water before cracking to make them room temperature first. They cook better this way.
4. Chocolate syrup: 1 c. water, 1 c. cocoa power, 1 c. sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp salt. Blend it in a blender. (sealed container works best, as it's messy) Better than store bought, super cheap, use organic if you like...
etc...
Why is this valuable? Because I am no longer tempted to waste money at restaurants any more, or buy unique expensive organic products (because I can make them now). I feel incredibly free and liberated that I get food at home that tastes better than what is at a restaurant now. (for about 90% of the stuff I like)
Also, I can teach my kids, and they start life with these skills. Great question, way too many things to write down...
Learn how to use deals site to save a ton of money: https://slickdeals.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9 I can't overstate how much money you will save by simply setting up alerts on sites like SlickDeals and learning the basic lingo like YMMV, B&M, PM etc... At the very least learn about the TofuVic's purchase point for toilet paper so you don't waste money wiping your ass.
It's weird that they forbid any user from Europe because of data privacy law.
Mindfulness meditation. Sitting with your thoughts and emotions, experiencing them, and understanding them, rather than avoiding them or distracting yourself from them can have a dramatic effect on your life. And 10 minutes a day for a week can get you far enough to see some real benefits, like reduced stress and increased awareness of unhelpful thought patterns.
I don't want to sound ridiculous, but I've gotten the same benefits that you seem to describe (I have never tried mindfulness) since I started to smoke weed.
This is not really a tech skill, but it can help you save some time a couple of times a day which you can then spend on other things ;) Relearn how to tie your shoelaces: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSwvDkJVxE
Use Upwork or a similar service to outsource some of your drudge work. Suddenly you'll find that you can accelerate yourself so much more.
Can you expand on this?
Eventually, you can see the MTurk / Upwork folks as just slow executing programs. For some jobs, some guy in Southeast Asia will do it for $4. Don’t even think about it.
This works across the spectrum: want to clean up formatting in a doc? Ship it over. Want to transcribe a video for captions? Ship it over. Want a quick scraper for a few websites? Ship it over.
The objective is to not be the bottleneck on any task.
Get a quick idea of what the labour looks like. Southeast Asia at $5 is great. Americans at $15 are a waste of time. South Asians at $8 will break even. Eventually, every hour of your time is spent on the time that is special about you.