Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Some suggestions:<p>- Build something. A new workbench for your office. Fix up an old car.  Build a pull-up bar in your garage.  Use your hands, cut some wood and metal, and treat yourself to a new tool or two. Do this with every project and you will have a nice tool collection before you know it.<p>- Learn to take pictures on a manual camera.  You can do this with a modern automatic camera if it has a manual mode.  Learn about ISO, f-stop, and shutter speed and the interplay of those three variables.  There&#x27;s a fantastic multi-part tutorial on Reddit that can help you learn these things. I don&#x27;t have the link handy but you can Google for it.<p>- Set a goal of cooking for yourself at least two nights a week and eating leftovers two nights a week.  Buy a binder and some clear inserts and start to put together your own book of favorite recipes.<p>- Take a nightly walk.<p>- Listen to classical music. This one didn&#x27;t come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there&#x27;s a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years. Opera is great, too. Listen to Mozart&#x27;s &quot;The Marriage of Figaro&quot;.  Download the KUSC app and listen to the amazing Metropolitan Opera broadcast every Saturday morning at 10 AM Pacific.