Given that most people are spending more time indoors due to Covid, what are some skills that people should acquire in 2021?<p>Some skills I've learnt in 2020:
- Repairing phones/ laptops<p>- Cooking decent and nutritious food<p>- Weightlifting with proper form<p>- Acting, posture, voice control and improv<p>- 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<p>Reference:
<a href="https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936</a>