Electrical

• Installing subpanels
• Installing breakers
• Installing outlets
• Overhead lighting
• Pendant lamps
• Dimmers and switches

Music

• Drumset
• Guitar
• Modular synthesis
• Sampling
• Production (Logic Pro)
• DJing and music curation
• Vintage stereos

Fashion

• Sewing
• Seam ripping
• Bespoke flannel shirts (Maison Bieber)
• Thrifting

Sculpture

• Wire sculpture

Industrial design

• Bespoke lamps
• Custom shelving

Web design

• HTML / CSS
• JS
  • Node, Astro JS, Next JS, Gatsby JS
• Python
  • Flask, Django
• Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
• Creative computing
• Mobile-first design

General contracting

• Foundation repair
• Foundation waterproofing
• Brick re-grouting
• Drywall repair (French technique)
• Painting
• AC installation
• Demolition
• Storm door installation

Woodworking

• Custom floor saddles
• Custom desks
• Custom cabinet fronts

Pest control

• (Legal) bat eviction

Landscaping & Hardscaping

• Patios, walkways, driveways
• French drains
• Downspout drainage
• Shoveling and digging
• Stone walls

Data

• Analytics & business intelligence
• Analytics engineering
• R
• SQL
• Python
  • Pandas, Polars
• Interactive dashboards
  • Shiny
• Data pipelines
  • Airflow
  • dbt
  • API automation
• Transit data (GTFS and GTFS-RT)
• Hosting data science workshops
• Metrics trees / metric decomposition
• Funnel analysis

Writing

• Short fiction
• Personal essays
• Prose poems
• Cookbooks / recipes
• Technical writing
• Observing things

Learning and education

• Designing for online learning
• Four component instructional design (4CID)
• Designing AI tutoring and mentorship experiences
• Mobile coding education
• Data science education
• Constructivism

Product management

• Entrepreneurship
• Reasoning from first principles, identifying assumptions
• Leading design thinking workshops and design sprints
• Stakeholder management
• Prioritization frameworks
• Hypothesis testing
• Vertical slicing, finding MVPs aka “earliest lovable” products
• Market analysis
• Competitive analysis
• Opportunity solution trees
• “Triple track” roadmapping: parallel discovery, shaping, and delivery roadmaps
• Shape Up
• Agile
• Scrum
• Product strategy
• Project management
  • Jira
  • Triage and escalation process design
  • Proactive communication

User research

• JTBD research
• UI testing
• Mental model research
• Synthesis
• Evangelizing insights

Growth hacking

• Performance marketing
• A/B testing
• Testing product-market-model-channel fit
• Designing growth / habit loops

Product marketing

• Positioning and messaging
• Sales enablement
• Copywriting
• UX writing
• Microcopy

Cooking

• Identifying italian wine varietals
• Making espresso
• Eating ice cream
• Sandwich art

Physical activities

• Plyometrics and Olympic lifting
• Personal training
• Skiing
• Bicycling
• Surfing
• Yoga
• Dunking a basketball

Other

• Repairing and rebuilding vintage barbecue grills
• Relationship coaching
  • Crucial Conversations
  • Power of Now
• Meditation