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We are a small team but even so there’s quite a mix of interests, personalities and even food tastes amongst the members of messaliberty.
One reason I joined messaliberty was that I would have an opportunity to learn more things in my chosen fields. Usability, IA, online marketing and so on. Learning by doing is a big part of working at a start-up.
I asked the team what skills they are looking to learn and master. Here some of things they mentioned.
Har:
- Ruby on Rails
- *nix/Server administration
- AIR apps development
- English
Ice:
- Ruby on Rails
- Pragger (Plagger for Ruby)
- Advanced Emacs Lisp
- Haskell
- GIMP/Inkscape
- Movie editing
- Self-management
- English
Chapp:
- English
- Finance
- Ruby, RoR, Ruby Shoes
- Marketing
- Business administration
- WordPress & WordPress Plugin
- IA
- Photography
- Server system administration
Hiro:
- Objective C and iPhone apps development
- Python
- Lisp
- Large scale server system administratioin
- AIR apps development
- Advanced business administration
- Advanced Marketing
Finally myself:
- Ruby, RoR, Ruby Shoes
- *nix System Admin
- Fluent Vi usage
- RegEx
- Deeper knowledge of SQL
- Flash/Fireworks
- WordPress Plugin/Theme design
- Japanese
- Advanced Marketing
Some of these things we already know to a certain degree, but we feel we haven’t mastered. As Michael Lopp said about geeks, a lot of the time we are “wide but not deep” in skills. I’ll put a reminder on my 30boxes calendar to come back to this in about 6 months to see how we are all doing. How about you, what skills would you like to add to your repertoire?