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Data increasingly defines our experiences, realities and opportunities. But data doesn't do anything on its own - it takes people and methods to refine it and make it valuable. This blog is my effort to work on these ideas - mostly for myself, but also for anyone Last year I was confronted with the fact that some of my technical skills have grown stale - at the point at which they were good enough to get the job done it seemed that all progress stopped.   I hadnt stopped learning - just stopped learning about certain technologies and products.   There were benefits to being in this rut like having extra time to spend on the needs of my organization and opportunities within my industry.   But all justifications aside the bottom line was that my productivity was being whittled away through small and continuous inefficiencies in my development methods.   I was using vim like a glorified notepad, I was using the mouse rather than keyboard short cuts on Firefox and Terminator, my use of Python was stuck in the 2.4 days, and I was consulting help on the find command So, I settled on a strategy that I used many years ago - to learn one thing every day meaning of learn:  I was forgetting some things almost as quickly as I was learning them.   Certain items really required practice But why stop with just learning something well enough to do it slowly and painfully?   Ideally, I would know my tools so well that most common tasks dont require conscious thought at all.  This would eliminate unnecessary distractions and free me up to think about the Theres an old story about two senior architects that were friends in college, and met again thirty years later.   After a few minutes they started talking about their favorite achievements.   The first described office towers, airports, and universities he was quite proud of.   The second didnt have any monuments to talk about, but shared that he thought he may have designed the perfect chair.t chair.