Half Life of Skills

Half Life of Skills

When deciding what is worth developing in terms of professional skills, there is an important concept to consider, and I would like to talk about it: the Half Life of Skills.

I'm often asked for advice about skills that are worth developing or learning, and I am always very happy to provide my feedback. These questions come from people of all ages, and this is very appropriate, because those who are not very young anymore, who are not at the beginning of their professional trajectory, can and should invest in themselves in order to maintain and improve their ability to provide value to the businesses that they work together with.

This is especially important in terms of what I call the half life of skills. If we decide to invest our attention, our resources, our time in a given direction, we have to take into account the opportunity costs that arise unavoidably. For example, our professional time is limited even if measured in decades, so we definitely want to maximize the return on the investment that we are making in developing a new skill.

So understanding and analyzing what is the likely life lifecycle of these technical skills enables a person to make very valuable judgments on the investment that a particular direction deserves. I hope that, alongside the other useful parameters of prioritizing certain skills, you may decide to use this concept of the half life of skills as something that you also find valuable.

Danish Qureshi

Sales Development Representrative ??

2 年

Agree ??

回复

要查看或添加评论,请登录

David Orban的更多文章

  • How to Export Your ChatGPT Data, and Those of Other AIs

    How to Export Your ChatGPT Data, and Those of Other AIs

    Backing up your data is essential, whether from social media platforms, YouTube, or AI assistants like ChatGPT. Here…

    2 条评论
  • AI Scaling Laws Prove Kurzweil Right Again

    AI Scaling Laws Prove Kurzweil Right Again

    During his 2025 keynote at CES in Las Vegas, Jensen Huang, in his usual approachable style, delivered some important…

  • Reclaim Your Digital Autonomy

    Reclaim Your Digital Autonomy

    Backup Your Online Data We greatly enjoy the convenience of online platforms making our digital lives easier. Billions…

  • From Horse Carriages to Rockets: Why Data Quality Drives the Speed of Innovation

    From Horse Carriages to Rockets: Why Data Quality Drives the Speed of Innovation

    I was invited to the 9th Quality Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to participate in a panel discussion about data…

    1 条评论
  • When Humanity Merges With Artificial Intelligence

    When Humanity Merges With Artificial Intelligence

    If this particular moment in human history, the years we are living, represented a phase change, whose consequences…

    2 条评论
  • I Have An AI Accent

    I Have An AI Accent

    I have an AI accent. And I have a Hungarian accent, and Italian accent, a New York accent.

    10 条评论
  • The Broken Periodic Table Analogy: A Disservice To Deep Understanding

    The Broken Periodic Table Analogy: A Disservice To Deep Understanding

    The periodic table of elements is a towering achievement of scientific discovery, and of data representation. Its…

  • Birthday Gifts of Positivity

    Birthday Gifts of Positivity

    On my birthday, I asked friends and acquaintances to share their good news instead of just wishing me a happy birthday.…

  • Radical Human Longevity

    Radical Human Longevity

    If you ask me my age, it is very likely that I will respond with a round number of the decade, not because it will…

  • Is This Idea Novel? An AI Based Scoring System

    Is This Idea Novel? An AI Based Scoring System

    I developed a simple approach to numerically score the novelty of ideas, using LLMs. For several years I have been…

    1 条评论

社区洞察