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The most valuable skills are not the ones that make you indispensable today—they are the ones that make you irrelevant to the problems of tomorrow, be...
Legacy skills—those hands-on abilities our grandparents used daily, from fixing a torn jacket to fermenting vegetables—are making a quiet comeback. Bu...
Most skill advice is built on a lie: that you can learn anything quickly and that the market will reward you forever. The truth is messier. Trends shi...
When the power grid flickers and the hardware store shelves empty, the ability to shape metal by hand becomes more than a hobby—it becomes a lifeline....
Every day, irreplaceable recordings, documents, and creative works slip beyond reach as the machines that read them fall silent. The archivist's hand—...