The 20/80 Principle Applied to Life Skills

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Sebagai 10% engineers (engineers yang cuma kerja 4 jam seminggu) suatu prinsip yang saya pegang adalah Learn just enough to be dangerous Do the 20% that gets you 80% there

Prakteknya:

💻 Software Engineering ✅ Bisa bikin aplikasi end-to-end dari mobile (React Native), FE (React), backend (Typescript), sampe deploy dan bisa diakses publik ✅ Bisa setup CI/CD pake Github Action ✅ Bisa query data tipis2 ✅ Bisa data analysis tipis2 (dari descriptive sampai prescriptive) ✅ 200 soal LeetCode 🔜 Bisa RAG dan fine-tune GPT model 🔜 Bisa bikin simple OLAP data pipeline

💼 Project Management ✅ Bisa manage delivery team kecil (3-8 people) ✅ Bisa manage delivery sekumpulan grup kecil (5 team of 3-8 people) ✅ Bisa nulis daily, weekly, quarterly update buat stakeholders ✅ Bisa nulis strategy document yang konek ke bisnis 🔜 Nulis dokumen2 di atas dalam < 30 menit

🎨 Design 🔜 Tau user experience yang lagi hits saat ini 🔜 Bisa mapping user experience kaya apa yang bagus buat suatu user persona tertentu 🔜 Punya library reference supaya "kalo aplikasinya kaya X, kita bikin mirip2 kaya Y"

🏋️ Health ✅ < 15% body fat ✅ 50 push-ups ✅ 10 pull-ups ✅ Bench body weight ✅ Squat 1.5x body weight ✅ Deadlift 1.75x body weight 🔜 < 1km in 4 min 🔜 < 100ms in 12 sec 🔜 Bench press 100kg

💰 Money ✅ Punya catetan Expense, Income, dan Investment ✅ Bisa bikin dan manage budget ✅ Bisa bedain punya uang vs punya budget ✅ Bisa bagi investasi ke short-term, mid-term, long-term dan menyesuaikan sesuai risk profile 🔜 Tau bandar yang bisa ngasih rekomendasi stonk

📈📈📈 Business ✅ Bisa bedain short-term asset (cash, inventory), long-term asset (brand, tanah, mesin), short-term liability (hutang, tagihan), dan long-term liability (shareholder equity) ✅ Bisa close warm lead ✅ Bisa performance marketing, antara Facebook atau Google ✅ Bisa SEO, antara programmatic SEO atau editorial SEO 🔜 Bisa menghasilkan cold lead

🤝 Relationship ✅ Know enough meme to be dangerous 🔜 Punya library meme yang cukup untuk nge-reply meme dengan meme

What's your 20%?

— Gogo (@lwastuargo) · May 19, 2024

Translation of intro:

As a 10% engineer (engineers who only work 4 hours a week), a principle I hold is to learn just enough to be dangerous and do the 20% that gets you 80% there. Here's how it works in practice:

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AI Summary

This comprehensive thread applies the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) to various life domains, from technical skills to personal health. The author, who identifies as a "10% engineer," outlines the minimum viable proficiency levels across different areas that yield maximum impact. The framework covers software engineering, project management, design, health, finance, business, and relationships, with clear checkmarks for achieved goals and upcoming targets.

Keywords

1. Pareto Principle
2. Productivity
3. Skill Development
4. Work-Life Balance
5. Minimum Viable Knowledge
6. Career Development
7. Personal Growth
8. Efficiency
9. Goal Setting
10. Life Management

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