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Truly it’s remarkable that past the fixed (purchase price) and operating (internet subscription) cost of owning a computer, you are only time-limited in what you can learn. The depth of what’s available through these machines is entirely incredible.
I owe (nearly wholly) to computers my: - basic Chinese language skills - a decent portion of my ability to get advanced things done in EAGLE - and I don’t often admit this but, everything I know about playing the accordion. What have you taught yourself online?
That’s just to start with, the things I’ve dedicated memorable amounts of time to (pure credit gets tricky because knowledge & knowing how to learn as a skill compounds)
Also incredible: the extent to which a few tools dominate. Wikipedia, YouTube, Memrise, Kindle; PDF viewers and audio players due generalized credit too I suppose.
If you teach yourself stuff, as a hobby, I am curious what tools or approaches you tend to use. What should I know about?
I've learned these mostly online: • software development (before I studied it in school) • digital electronics + PCB design • basic mechanical CAD • web development • photography • woodworking • basically all my hobbies
It would have been much harder to start working on bicycles without Sheldon Brown’s website
Besides meeting my wife online, keeping up with my family and friends online after migrating to the other end of the planet, reading online a ton of self-help that complemented my therapy, and learning online the trade that I ply online and keeps me fed and housed, you mean?
Professional: - Tons about programming, from the small to the large, the technical to the social. - Business, marketing, finance. Personal: - Cooking techniques. - Social justice and inclusion. - Meta-skills about how to learn and study better.
And the ones where videos can be better than text: - Home maintenance. - Computer maintenance. - Image, audio, video editing.
It’s harder for me to think of something I haven’t learned online. I struggled in school. When I got out of college and online the world opened up to me. I taught myself programming. I started a business. It transformed my life!
And programming was only to get it off the ground. Then I learned how to run ethernet, how to drive a forklift, how warehouses work, LabView, basic electronics, how to interview, how to manage people, the basics of business, 3D printing, vacuum forming, the list gone on and on!
Yes, but I don't speak Spanish so accordion de bottones is mostly show & immitate
You’re probably picking up some Spanish too. I interviewed some guys from the Basque Country (en Español!) and found I can hold up a conversation as long as the subject was accordions
C# FreeCAD Organic Chemistry (kahn acdm.) EAGLE Python Embedded C Cisco IOS Wow... cool thing to think through.
Music theory & composition. (Over past couple of years. It still amazes me I can now create something that sounds musical. :) ) (And, alongside that allowing myself to create things that *don't* sound musical & understand that part of learning.)
The accordion!?!?! Egads, you contain multitudes!
I do wish there were better ways to make sharing/educating online more sustainable for the people currently doing it for free/nominal income.
I am a far better poker player than I would otherwise be, and that has made me better at many other things Also, currently learning python
person I've helped out that has played the accordion for like 50 years offered me free lessons and scrounged up a loaner, starting next week :o
Nothing as impressive, but I've taught myself a good deal about film photography, vintage gear and developing film. I'd learned some back in high school, but had to pretty much start from scratch.
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