Ask HN: What skills would you invest in learning?

It's probably best to try and learn something that you get excited about learning. You're going to be your own motivator, and if you give up half ways, it's probably not worth it.

Another tip is to try to get in touch with a community of people you can learn together with. After I moved away from London, I've learned a lot less, even though I have just as much time. I'm just not around as knowledge hungry people. This makes all the difference.

Another technique is to try and devote one week to a subject and check if you like it. I did it with machine learning: https://medium.com/@oslokommuneper/machine-learning-in-a-wee...

You can try coding, design, marketing etc. Whatever you like. Worst case, you waste a week. Best case, you discover a new passion.

Current item 1 on my "to do once we exit" list.

It's a brilliant set of books by one of the most brilliant authors ever, and IMHO has a philosophy and structure that is rarely found in contemporary books or graphic novels. It would be a challenge to bring that vision to the paper well.

>Ever made a mistake? Missed an opportunity? Of course; but what’s interesting is how cognitive scientists have found even highly educated and successful people to make predictable errors in judgement, and just knowing about these experiments often isn’t enough to prevent these mistakes. It actually takes practice to form new mental habits. At our workshops, you can learn about newly discovered failure patterns in human decision-making, and begin training to overcome them…

Think of it as martial arts for rationality. You know about things like the sunk cost fallacy, but they do workshops to make sure you recognize it when it's happening to you.

A great bunch of very skilled people. The personal advice helped me get over some hangups about procrastination.

I think it's a great foundation to help learn other skills, and asses what information will be valuable to you.

* Good regexp chops in a scripting language.

* Cooking, because it's a proxy for skills in procedures, taste and aesthetics, and makes you more able to keep a healthy diet.

* How to set up, maintain and use a commuting bicycle. Easier and more productive than the gym.