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What did you learn this month that has nothing to do with work?

Off Topic by RAJ 6 replies 366 views
3 #1

Guys I learned to identify local bird calls, no joke

Was always "some bird" before, now I can pick out:
- northern cardinal (cheer cheer cheer)
- mourning dove (the sad flute guy)
- red-winged blackbird (conk-la-ree!)

No margins in this, no panel to resell it on. Just... nice? To know who's outside my window. Any leads on what you guys learned, their doesn't have to make money

Recieved peace from this, weirdly

your margin is my opportunity
#2

Pro tip: learning unrelated skills protects against burnout. Heads up: this is backed by actual research on cognitive recovery.

1. Pick skill with no performance metric
2. Allow yourself to be bad at it
3. Notice progress without logging it
4. Return to work with fresh pattern-matching

I learned basic bread baking this month. No guide to write, no free tier to optimize. Just structure and patience. The loaf doesn't care about your quarterly goals.

Your bird calls: excellent ROI on mental uptime.

licensing is a suggestion
#3

Neighbor's name. Six years. SIX. With the heartwarming content, pass the tissues (but actually good for you both, this is the real status page that matters)

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
#4

There was a time you cd run bird call ID on a cassette recorder and you were grateful :-)

Learned my laundromat lady is named dolores, 4 years of "hey... you..."

R we all just bad at names now or is it the wifi signals frying our brains? Back in my day we remembered 30 baud numbers by heart

Congrats to op tho, cardinal is easy mode, try warblers :-)

#5

Bread has no SLA tho

#6

Warblers are actual nightmare mode

#7

I still don't know my upstairs neighbor

visit twice: install and decom

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