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

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Post by sshine »

Bare-metal Rust: I’ve worked professionally with Rust for 3 years, and embedded Rust for 2. But mostly on RPi 4. I want to make more hardware prototypes, and I have half a dozen ideas.

Nix for production: I’ve used NixOS on my work laptop for 9 months, and I’ve deployed it in production for on-prem CI, dashboard web servers, blogs, VPN gateways, DNS servers. But I could sink another 200 hours into more “katas”, especially wrt. deployment and handling a network of devices.

My path is to create learning material for others.

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

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Post by hambos22 »

yu3zhou4 wrote: post #4

Marketing and sales, so this time I succeed with having paying customers in my next product :) Any tips or resources for solo entrepreneurs is highly appreciated!

I've been running my brand of scented products and cosmetics (https://yuma.gr) for 2 years now. 2 months ago we completed a rebranding and we're steadily gaining national consumer awareness of our existence as a brand.

From the top of my head, in order of importance:

1. Your perspective is unique - no one else shares your exact point of view. Try everything.

2. Master digital marketing: Google & Facebook Ads, Server Side Tracking, Google Tag Manager, and Analytics. Recommended communities:

- reddit.com/r/PPC

- measure.chat

3. Keep creative talent in-house (designers, developers)

4. Study pricing psychology (eg. kolenda.io/guides/pricing)

5. Good books with warstories:

* Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

* The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing & of Branding (2 separate books) by Al Ries

6. Learn accounting essentials, each country has its own system

7. Provide solid support via multiple channels (phone, email, chat, social etc)

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

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Post by geocrasher »

BadHumans wrote: post #50
geocrasher wrote: post #33

I want to learn how to properly build a habit/routine that isn't dopamine driven. I have ADHD and I recently realized, even as I'm pushing 50 years old, that all of my hobbies, habits, and "likes" have been dopamine driven. I need to learn how to exclude the reward of a dopamine hit as the reason for doing something. Resources welcome.

I would recommend you read Tiny Habits by Dr BJ Fogg. A lot of people recommend Atomic Habits but I will go against the grain and say I don't think Atomic Habits is a good book and Tiny Habits is a much better read.

Thank you, I'm checking that out now.

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

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Post by bmitc »

The ability to separate work and family, spending time with my family, and to act on some long-standing personal projects and books waiting to be read. I want rely on work to drive work-related skills while re-capturing some of my personal time for personal endeavors. For work, I hope to get into Rust with embedded systems, FPGAs, and increasing general-purpose software skills on the backend and frontend side as well.

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Post by delichon »

highfrequency wrote: post #57
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…

Merry Christmas. Do you have a link to the Andreessen quote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4wBv0w9ew

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

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Post by punkspider »

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…

The marketing trick that had the most impact on my mindset has been this article about how to structure landing pages https://marketingexamples.com/landing-page/guide.

If you didn't know about it already, I think that you could use it to tweak the Nuenki landing page, and you'll possibly have some aha moment that'll help in marketing down the line.

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

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Post by skobes »

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…

I gave up on shoelaces many years ago and now wear loafers almost exclusively. It has saved a lot of time!

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

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Post by booleandilemma »

7402 wrote: post #75

1) Improved fluency in reading Latin, so I can get through more of Seneca's Letters without so many hours referring to dictionaries and my first-year (and only) textbook; 2) improve Morse code copying speed from 15 wpm to a solid 20 wpm.

Hey, that's really cool. Why did you pick Latin over Greek? Or do you study Greek as well?

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

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Post by NorwegianDude »

sunday_serif wrote: post #16

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. Le…

Personally I think that even if you don't know everything, just make clear what you are certain and uncertain about.

You probably know a lot, and what you write is still good as long as you don't spread misinformation. I have issues trusting most sources that are not clear about what they are uncertain about, cause most people are not experts.

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