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#2Two of the skills mentioned are ones I've failed at. Making a great omelet and folding fitted sheets.
I've never made an omelet that is very good and I've tried a bunch of variations. I've had lots of omelets in restaurants that are great.
For the fitted sheet skill, I've watched the videos on people doing it and it feels a little like the old how-to-draw-an-owl meme. Step one and two make sense, but then step 3 is magic.
Re: Try Micromastery
#3Two of the skills mentioned are ones I've failed at. Making a great omelet and folding fitted sheets. I've never made an omelet that is very good and I've tried a bunch of variations. I've had lots of omelets in restaurants that are great. For the fitted sheet skill, I've watched the videos on people doing it and it feels a little like the old how-to-draw-an-owl meme. Step one and two make sense, but then step 3 is m…
What's wrong with your omelets? I've made hundreds of ugly omelets but now I can make a pretty one about 3 out of 5 times.
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#4Two of the skills mentioned are ones I've failed at. Making a great omelet and folding fitted sheets. I've never made an omelet that is very good and I've tried a bunch of variations. I've had lots of omelets in restaurants that are great. For the fitted sheet skill, I've watched the videos on people doing it and it feels a little like the old how-to-draw-an-owl meme. Step one and two make sense, but then step 3 is m…
What's wrong with your omelets? I've made hundreds of ugly omelets but now I can make a pretty one about 3 out of 5 times.
They are bland and it's not due to lack of salt. I've had slightly better luck lately pre-sauteing the stuff I want to add to the eggs, but nothing that I'm terribly happy with so far.
What are you putting in yours?
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#5So we're just giving a new name to "learning skills"? What?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with your omelets? I've made hundreds of ugly omelets but now I can make a pretty one about 3 out of 5 times.
They are bland and it's not due to lack of salt. I've had slightly better luck lately pre-sauteing the stuff I want to add to the eggs, but nothing that I'm terribly happy with so far. What are you putting in yours?
What kind of eggs do you use? Regardless of your opinions on animal rights, etc, I strongly recommend buying the fanciest free-range, etc. eggs you can find. A healthy diet for the chickens makes a huge impact on egg quality & taste. I doubt this will solve your entire problem, but it helps.
I assume you're already using fresh garlic & onions, but those are also musts in my opinion.
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#7So we're just giving a new name to "learning skills"? What?
There is a wide spectrum of the amount of time, effort, and money it takes to learn various skills. This seems like a celebration of those skills on the small end of the spectrum that anyone can learn, whether they are practical or not.
Seems like a good idea to me, in an age where everything is either treated as disposable or outsourced.
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#8Two of the skills mentioned are ones I've failed at. Making a great omelet and folding fitted sheets. I've never made an omelet that is very good and I've tried a bunch of variations. I've had lots of omelets in restaurants that are great. For the fitted sheet skill, I've watched the videos on people doing it and it feels a little like the old how-to-draw-an-owl meme. Step one and two make sense, but then step 3 is m…
My spouse always asks me fold fitted sheets. But it doesn't seem that hard.
1. put two adjacent corner-pockets into each other, then do the same with the other side, then put those doubled pockets together.
2. Now you have an irregular shaped blob. If you put your hand inside the pocket (there is only one now), you have a flat square, plus the overhanging bits from parts of the fitted sheet that hang down.
3. You just lay those lobes flat so that what is left is flat(-ish) and square(ish).
4. Fold that once or twice depending on the size of the fitted sheet and you are done.
Step (3) is the hardish part since you need to keep the sheet flat. I do it "in the air", but to start I would use a table so that the flat part doesn't move around while I'm folding over the lobes. The flatness will depend somewhat on the thickness of the fabric, but it's usually about 30% thicker than the flat-sheet.
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#9So we're just giving a new name to "learning skills"? What?
There is a wide spectrum of the amount of time, effort, and money it takes to learn various skills. This seems like a celebration of those skills on the small end of the spectrum that anyone can learn, whether they are practical or not. Seems like a good idea to me, in an age where everything is either treated as disposable or outsourced.
I think the OP was saying it's a fancy term for nothing new. I agree with him (I note the term 'life hack' being used in the media for trivialities now). I'd agree with you too, learning new stuff is better.
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#10I've been thinking about origami lately. Has an aesthetic purpose, but very analog and doesn't involve looking at a screen.