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Ask HN: What practical skills do you recommend?
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#22Starting conversations with strangers. Learning to be comfortable doing the uncomfortable can take you a long way.
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#23Growing plants outdoors and indoors.
If you want to have a garden or grow blueberry bushes, it is super helpful to have these basic skills.
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#24Not in any order of importance: 1. Basic mechanical drawing and perspective drawing 2. Jogging a mile without stopping 3. Using abdominal muscles when lifting heavy things 4. Stomach breathing 5. Waking a half hour early to journal, meditate, take a walk, enjoy the morning, etc. 6. Being mindful of the moment 7. Basic kinematics 8. Basic electrical concepts and skills 9. Basic plumbing skills 10. Basic photography an…
Any suggestions for #11? I loathe receiving gifts for this reason despite giving them out often.
More important than the gift itself is that someone made the effort.
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#25touch typing
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#26Learning how a car works turned out to be a seminal moment in life. Suddenly, lots of machinery, from guns to lawnmowers, seems simple and straightforward.
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#27Learning how a car works turned out to be a seminal moment in life. Suddenly, lots of machinery, from guns to lawnmowers, seems simple and straightforward.
do you have a good starting source?
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#28Learn to listen other people talking. I am not sure that is what you intended to search for, but it is practical and it is skill. It is hard, though.
Listening skills help not only in your professional life, but also in raising kids and having a good relationship with friends and family.
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#29Some underrated skills if you’re a programmer:
- regular expressions (PCRE even)
- git
- bash and posix sh + basic Linux building blocks (find/xargs, sed, grep, awk, …)
Lots of people don’t ever take the time to learn these formally instead of struggling to use them sporadically. Take the time to learn your tools properly, it makes a huge difference.
3 more that are extremely useful:
- SQL
- CSS
- Makefiles
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#30Not in any order of importance: 1. Basic mechanical drawing and perspective drawing 2. Jogging a mile without stopping 3. Using abdominal muscles when lifting heavy things 4. Stomach breathing 5. Waking a half hour early to journal, meditate, take a walk, enjoy the morning, etc. 6. Being mindful of the moment 7. Basic kinematics 8. Basic electrical concepts and skills 9. Basic plumbing skills 10. Basic photography an…
Do you have tips on how to improve or even learn #12?