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Everything about Skill

Ability to carry out a task

A skill is the learned or innate ability to act with determined results and good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. Examples of general skills include time management, teamwork, leadership, and self-motivation. In contrast, domain-specific skills would be used only for a certain job, e.g. operating a sand blaster. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: SkillA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Prompt Engineering as an Important Emerging Skill for Medical Professionals: TutorialInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical ExplorationCited 5,259 times
  5. Go sideways: Soft skillsA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: People skillsA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.

Noun A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.

Noun Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

Noun Knowledge; understanding.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Hard skills
  2. Holistic competency
  3. Labor skills
  4. Life skills
  5. People skills
  6. Social skills
  7. Soft skills
  8. Development and maintenance

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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