Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

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Post by dcminter » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

zjs wrote: post #133

jck wrote: post #112

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How did you learn how to dance?

I'm not the person you're asking, but will share my thoughts anyways. I learned when a friend dragged me to a "taster" class at a local social dance venue. It was fun, so I went the next week. At the beginning of the next month, I enrolled in a "progressive" series (lessons that built on one another, unlike the "taster" classes that start from scratch each time). Under normal circumstances, I think that's be best way…

Pretty much this, and I also started with Lindy.

Re: Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

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Post by dtmooreiv » Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 6:17 AM UTC

4weekoldroses wrote: post #164

motohagiography wrote: post #150

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I didn't encounter much in the way of quantitative stuff other than DeMesquita's "Logic of Political Survival," and related papers and code, which is what people should understand after they have read the foundational books like Getting To Yes, Influence, Never Split the Difference, the guidebook to negotiations A-Z from The Economist, etc. People who haven't read laterally in it tend to only have one or two tools th…

Thanks for this reply. Who is the author of Influence? Also, have you heard anything on salience models?

Robert Cialdini wrote Influence

Re: Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

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Post by b20000 » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

vasergen wrote: post #166

Learn how to negotiate

THIS