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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 gspencley »

I'm learning to tailor and fabricate clothing right now. My wife and I are part time magicians and I want to be able to make our costumes ourselevs. At the moment I'm making a longline underbust corset for my wife's costume and will work up to a woman's tailcoat and eventually the goal is to make my own bespoke 3-piece late Victorian / Edwardian inspired men's suit.

It has been such a rabbit hole because, much like software development, it is not just one skill but lots of different skills and disciplines that combine. From design sketches to pattern drafting to understanding the nature of fabrics and how to cut them properly for wear and durability to the actual sewing and fitting etc.

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

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Post by jackthetab »

CalRobert wrote: post #45

I keep hearing about people building entire programs with Claude, etc and I haven’t figured that out yet. So far I use and like copilot, etc but it’s just a slight improvement, nothing huge. I’d like to figure out what I’m missing. Also, professional development. I think I’ve never learned to sell myself.

I found the tutorials on this YT channel[1] helpful in learning "what I'm missing". This playlist[2] in particular.

I need to learn how to sell myself as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@CodingtheFuture-jg1he [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXP2wwC5Ss&list=PLk7JCUQLwR...

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

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Post by Tepix »

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.

Try reading books, i'm always happy when i finish one, starting is the difficult part.

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

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Post by em-bee »

melvinroest wrote: post #61
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #12

Marketing and sales, like everybody else. :) Desktop application development. I want to make it as easy and fast to create desktop apps as it is to create a web app or a command line app.

Funny you mention that, while I know quite a few programming languages, I think most desktop applications that don't need a lot of bells and whistles, I'd probably make it with Pharo. I haven't programmed in a while with Pharo but they have a built-in GUI framework. But there was also Bloc, if remember correctly. Fun fact: you can then also ship the IDE itself with it, so people can hack into your application, if tha…

pharo is awesome. if i had any need for desktop applications, it's the first thing i'd try to use.

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

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Post by motohagiography »

- financial management skills. how to allocate and manage capital and get value from money. to me elon musk is mainly a very successful private equity investor. imo if you can do that, you can do anything.

- fitness discipline, moderation and better consistent average performance than hitting PR's.

- musical literacy. I'd like to be able to read a score and hear it instead of just sounding out each note.

- horsemanship, continue the journey into a third decade, train up another young horse but this time with more lightness.

having amateur interests is a strange dynamic. what is more absurd? the ridiculousness of being an adult trying learn things that children do and that other people have already spent entire lifetimes and sacrificed other opportunities to learn- or not learning them or developing the physical competence, but having mere opinions and taste about them?

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

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Post by aunty_helen »

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…

4 months and you’re already starting to understand and able to join in some? That sounds pretty good tbh.

I’ve been partially avoiding learning whilst mostly living in Spanish speaking countries for the last 6 years. Concerted effort is key but don’t beat yourself up about having difficulties listening, native speakers have the whole dictionary to pull from whereas you only have a few words and phrases with basic grammar.

It helps to be around other people that are learning or have learned as there’s a lot of cracks to fall into between a direct literal translation. These are obvious for bilinguals but can’t be appreciated by native monolinguals. Try asking someone to go on a fecha with you to the movies.

And don’t worry about being slow, find good people with patience.

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

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Post by em-bee »

hu3 wrote: post #25

entrepreneurship To leave the rat race.

become a freelancer and build interesting sideprojects that you can try to monetize. in a startup, especially one that needs VC funding, the ratrace is replaced with a fox race, but you are the rabbit.

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

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Post by fm2606 »

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.

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