Very inspirational! Do you have any resources in particular that helped you learn to cook?
My primary resource was The Four Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss. It isn't a recipe book (though it does contain recipes), but rather is a book describing how to actually cook, like how to do various techniques of cutting and braising, and what tastes go together, and how to learn what tastes go together.
I recommend it, but this isn't the kind of high-quality recommendation you get from someone who's tried a bunch of things and has an informed decision about which one is the best.
As I was working through the book, I asked a much more skilled-at-cooking friend for...
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The purpose of this repository is to collect information about serious misjudgements and mistakes in order to help people avoid similar mistakes. (I am posting this repository because I'm trying to conduct a premortem on my life and figure out what catastrophic risks may screw me over in the near or far future.)