Poll: beyond schooling, did you mostly a) learn new skills for specific projects b) make up projects as an excuse to learn cool new skills?
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One existential mega-project (a) drove the need for new skills, which drove the need for projects to learn them (b).
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Almost exclusively (a). Making the thing is what motivates, new skills just a means to the end.
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1/ b) for me // first imitate the work of some skilled person ➡ pick up all the ancillary skills required for the cool-skill-project
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2/ the ancillary skills learned in pursuit of the cool skills are usually the marketable ones
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