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jsteinhardt comments on Most transferable skills? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 12 May 2012 06:56:49PM 2 points [-]

This. If you're going to learn one thing, teach yourself how to program.

Okay this is probably not true but in many cases I think learning to program is one of the highest utility-increasing things you could do.