I wonder how many things a single human could learn the basics of

can you really become the jack of all trades

nowadays you can learn lots of skills for free online, or even pay for professional teaching, I bet you can get a basic understanding of many things within a week

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assuming someone starts at twenty and keeps it up until they're 80, that's 3120 skills. Doesn't have to be a week for every skill, but I figure it would balance itself out, some take more time

of course, in order to learn many things you need tools, which can be really expensive, but I'm already assuming that the person has infinite free time so it's kind of a spherical cows in a vacuum situation, let's just assume infinite money too

@noiob I think it’s less learning a bunch of individual skills and more learning the fundamentals of a field. Once you know enough and apply some critical thinking can solve many different things even if you don’t know specifically what needs to be done.

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