PieFed.WorldWhat was that thing you got really good at, and how good are you?
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Procrastinating
I will let you know later how good I am at it.
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Starting projects.
I'll update when I'm gold at finishing them.
-- Signed, ADHD Man
Oil painting
I'm pretty good. I had a client donate two of my portraits of Patrick Mahomes to his foundation, which he signed and auctioned off, so somewhere in this country my signature is literally next to Patrick Mahomes' on his own portrait in some rich assholes' art collections.
I'd like to see the paintings
Sorry, you have to be a rich asshole.
No deal I'm not showing you my asshole.
I got a bit good at a board game called Go, it's the oldest board game still played. In Asia it is really big and has its own sports tv channel. I'm top 500 or so in Europe. Try it maybe, it's quite fun!
I have a real passion for software development. There are raw skills like algorithms that lots of other people are better at, but when it comes to API design, clean code, enacting principles of good architecture and UX, I think I am uncommonly good. Most of the people I work with don't care and frankly I think caring and practice is all it takes but somehow that's not something most people in the industry are capable of.
But I love making software that people like or at least hate less than what they had before.
Need a job?
I have one that I'm enjoying, but we are going back to 4 days in the office and it's 1.5 hours away without traffic and I only agreed to 1 day when I took the job. I just had a recruiter hit me up for a team lead position that I had to interview for at least, so for the right opportunity I'm looking. Ideally something permanent. Feel free to DM me if you're serious.
I am very good at cooking now, like whatever I want to make I can AND I can take whatever we have and make something good, and I enjoy it, and people comment on it and want me to cook for them. Hobby level good, I would say. Food and drinks both, always something fermenting over here, and I love making cocktails (obviously).
I can tame and turn any semi-feral cat into a lap cat.
I have never been unsuccessful at getting traumatized shelter or farm cats to eventually relax and become super affectionate. It takes repeated exposure, itโs not a magic power. I learened how due to a fortune upbringing on a farm and lots of time to perfect my methods.
Nice! Do you feel like sharing your strategy that works for you?
Put them somewhere safe and quiet, like a closet. Give food, water, litterbox, bed, somewhere to hide.
Come in regularly, talk quietly and calmly and resupply/clean up.
Wait for them to get bored. They'll get bored every time
Making logos. good enough that whenever my friends want a logo to be made for their brand or band they come right to me lol
All I know is that I don't know nothin.
Found the philosopher.
I see you're very good at knowing
Im good at building simple tech architectures by saying no to tech we dont need.
Unfortunately nobody listens, management keeps forcing the fastest shitty duck tape solution, and thinking its a great idea to copy paste entire tech environments because its the fastest.
Lols.
It sounds like you are also skilled at maintaining a clear sense of your values even after repeated exposure to pressures against them. It's a good skill to have, though super frustrating to have to use, I imagine
Yeah I have gotten confidence in my opinions after seeing so many tech environments turn to dog shit.
But at the same time, since its not MY tech environment, it doesnt affect me so much when it turns so bad that every day is just problems to fix. Then I move on to another job.
Just noise, but love your handle lol
I say no a lot. But at the same time, I also try to show excitement in whatever my boss thinks is good. The tech is interesting, the tech can be objectively good. But it doesn't fit our use case, and it seems like shoehorning something in just for buzz words is not a great idea.
The really good tech comes out of a need, and we don't have the same need as those other people.
I'm a master of modesty, ask me what I'm good at and I will blush and touch the back of my neck and say stuff life "well shuucks...."
So you're good at touching the back of your neck?
as well as other things, yes
I have a tendency to get fixated on something creative, and then pour hours and hours into it while not doing other things that I should be. As a result I have some eclectic creative talents, one of which was playing the musical instruments in Guild Wars 2. They let you play notes with the number keys and I got really into making arrangements and performing for people waiting for boss spawns. I played for hours just enjoying making music and I ended up being pretty well known in the community for a while. I would say only 2 or 3 other people were as good as me at one point. I'm out of practice now but it's always a treat when I hear someone playing one of my arrangements.
This is one I'm really proud of
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzDhxeECOL4
Lol that was awesome
I like to think I got pretty good at guitar. I'm no virtuoso but I've gotten to the point where I've been truly stoked about where I'm at skill-wise a couple times.
As a kid I always thought I'd plateau in my mid 20s and would never really progress from there but I'm 35 now and I feel like learning in general is still an easy thing to do, or at least get started on.
Here's a clip if you wanna check out some playing.
I also feel like I'm a pretty good music engineer/producer. I like covering songs to practice my skills. Here's one I did recently.
Keeping my neighbourhood tiger free. Hasn't been a sighting of a tiger here since I moved in. No sharks either.
Oh, and cooking. I'm pretty good at cooking. More than one set of friends have said I should apply to go on Masterchef but I have no interest in fancy plating and I'm not much of a puddings guy.
Formal documents. Drafting, formatting, editing documents for legal submissions, complex advice and such.
I need to pick this up in my new job role but find it really boring. I am good with creative writing and have a good vocabulary but I just can't seem to be able to make myself write the formal text. Any pointers for me?
Not really sorry.
I use LibreOffice but I don't think that's the key, it's just different.
I suspect I'm neurodivergent, maybe ASD. When this don't seem how I want them I spend a ridiculous amount of time learning how to make it look right.
I'm very particular about typography.
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Share what?
I can't really summarise this skill I'm sorry.
Deep Rock Galactic. I can carry 3 greenbeards on a H5 if I'm not sleepy.
Rock and Stone!
Rock! And! Stooooooooooooooooooooooooonnehh
Nice to see another greybeard! ROCK AND STONE!
There are some things I really like to do but I wouldn't say I ever got good at them, despite dumping lots of time into them.
So I guess you could say I got really good at accepting I'll never be really good at anything.
Was? Likeโฆ past tense?
OP gon' kill you
Tech/Software/Development. Apparently exceptional, or very good, I don't know.
Broad and deep knowledge, strong systematic thinking, experience, good intuition, seeking to improve my tools, docs, workflows, mindful and proactive of how we work together, and in including othersโฆ
I don't know if work as an escape is a good or bad thing. At least I got that going for me.
Oh! To be good at something profitable. The dream
Everyone in tech describes themselves this way.
Flipping flippers.
But my home machine is broken right now...again.
Building trees from LEGO. I've been considered the person to ask about this in the community.
Can we see some of your creations?
The Shire
Crazy cool!
I like to think that I am good at root causing software issues.
Causing them, fixing them, or both?
Hahah I guess both. You learn a lot with either. ๐
Reading people.
Had some troubles with family members and drugs growing up, so you learn to read situations and people real fast. I guess itโs a survival skill as addicts often say and do what they need to to get their next fix.
A nice ยซskillยป to have, even though Iโd rather I didnโt need to develop it
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What's your favorite things that you've gotten good at? [in those alternatives]
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Sounds rough. Best wishes
It sounds like you're pretty skilled at resilience. No doubt it doesn't feel like it, because it sounds like you're far from thriving in life. However, as someone with a fair bit of trauma of my own, I know how hard it can be to simply continue existing.
I'm not going to say some trite shit about how things can get better, because I've been grappling with hopelessness myself a lot lately; just because something can theoretically get better doesn't necessarily mean that it will โ especially when the material circumstances of our life are so tied to the opportunities to heal that we have access to. What I will say is that I'm sorry you had to develop such resilience, and that so many of those happier potential futures were stolen from you. It's not fair, and no amount of future happiness can ever change that. However, I hope that some day you are able to discover an accessible future that can be fulfilling for you, because you deserve it. Something that I tell myself when I am very low is that as long as I am alive, there is a non-zero chance that things will improve. It's not much, but sometimes when it hurts too much to hope, it helps to hope for a reason to hope.
For what it's worth, I'm glad you're here. I'm generally miserable lately, and although I know next to nothing of your world, there's enough here that I feel a sense of solidarity with you. I'm not entirely sure whether that makes me feel any better โ in some ways it hurts to see other people battling circumstance in the ways you describe. On the other hand, it does make me feel less alone, which bolsters my resolve somewhat. So thank you for being here (where "here" means on this thread, but also existing in this world). Existing is fucking hard under the circumstances you describe, and though it's surely hard to see it this way, your strength in persisting is an achievement to be proud of.
Even when it was not addressed to me, I appreciate your thoughtful response. I like to see and read these kinds of thoughtful and supportive comments.
Cooking. I mean my friends italian grandma approves and says its way better than her daughters cooking
Rapping. Writing it, at least. And the best ever, obviously
Refunct. Can recommend.
Understanding things. Like, I learn rather quickly. I can take something apart and see how it works, I can debug code and understand what it does and usually why it does it that way.
In lectures, I don't need to be easily guided into the conclusion. If the pieces are laid out before me, I'll usually get it before the lecturer gets to that point.
Lumberjacking in Antarctica 10 out of 10. It's tough because there aren't any trees to practice on.
Depression. I was born with master-level, didn't even have to work for it