Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?

Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by kurosawa on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:18PM (#18766114)

Do something that would be orthogonal to the current sum of your life experiences.

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by mooreds on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:05PM (#18766686)

This!

If you have time off, do something risky that you wouldn't do normally. Why? Because soon enough you'll likely be back in the normal swing of things and unable to take that risk.

Examples:

Work on a farm

Do the Appalachian trail (or similar)

Take the train across Australia

Learn to ride a motorcycle

Learn to play guitar

Etc Etc

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by omosubi on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:57PM (#18767182)

I worked on an organic farm this past year for two weeks (through WWOOF) and it was probably the best two weeks of the year for me. It really opened my eyes to how food is produced and just how much humans have changed the landscape of the planet - well worth the effort

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by mooreds on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:00PM (#18841304)

I spent 6 months at home and abroad travelling and WWOOFed for 3 weeks of it. Those 3 weeks had the biggest impact and resonate through my life even today, years later.

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by csomar on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:06AM (#18775445)

Take the train across Australia

Learn to ride a motorcycle

Learn to play guitar

Are these risky endeavors?

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by mooreds on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:01PM (#18841310)

I take your point. Maybe "difficult" or "alien" would have been better adjectives.

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