Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2021?
Given that most people are spending more time indoors due to Covid, what are some skills that people should acquire in 2021?
Some skills I've learnt in 2020: - Repairing phones/ laptops
- Cooking decent and nutritious food
- Weightlifting with proper form
- Acting, posture, voice control and improv
- Blog writing: One of my posts got to HN front page, though it's hard to be consistent Maybe:
- Speaking another language than English. Language is a key to access a culture.
- Being more or less aware of your neurological (isolation, attention, sleep, meditation, n-back) and evolutionary needs (fasting, exercise) to infer consequences for your own health. Tangentially related: how to read studies as a layperson to ultimately make decisions for yourself & your health?
- Mastering/recapitulation of fundamentals of your craft (to stay sharp): "Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers."
- Investing & microeconomics
- Creativity: "Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated."
- Being aware of non-conventional (and preferably non-exploitative) money making opportunities: "The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet."
- How to operate a search engine effectively (how to come up with the right keywords to get what you're exactly looking for)
- Self discipline in a highly distractible atmosphere
- Emotional self-management
- Organizing: PARA system, Johnny File System, Obsidian Reference:
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936 Since lockdowns and covid make urban living and mass transit less attractive, driving is a skill many people should acquire.