The Hardcore Skills That Changed My Life

by Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) on

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Personally, the hardcore skills that changed my life were serious math/coding chops. Those skills pair really well with each other and pretty much anything else.

I don’t claim those are the only hardcore skills, but I do claim they’re at the top of the list for anyone who is at all quantitatively/technically inclined.

For those people, I think the perfect trifecta is combining math/coding chops with serious knowledge in some other domain. Bonus points if you’re an interesting communicator.

The idea is:

  • domain knowledge $\to$ identify a problem worth solving and understand what constitutes a solution
  • math/coding chops $\to$ solve the problem
  • interesting communication $\to$ make people aware of the solution


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