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So we're just giving a new name to "learning skills"? What?
by mdszy 7y ago
So we're just giving a new name to "learning skills"? What?
- bityard 7y agoThere 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.
- tempguy9999 7y agoI 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.
- jbigelow76 7y agoWhy skip breakfast to learn a skill when you could instead micro master while intermittently fasting?
- balaam 7y agoI think you sometimes need a new word or term to better capture an idea. I quite like the idea of mircomastery. We'll have to wait and see if it's one that survives though.
- coldtea 7y agoYes, we're giving a new name "to purposefully learning a bunch of easy-to-learn skills, that require smaller time investment, to boost confidence and use as a nice flow-inducing hobby". The full phrase was a mouthful. Seriously, the parent comment reads like the "Dropbox" comment (so they've just turned running curlftpfs, cvs, and ftp into a company now?)