knowledge meme from fiannaharpar

[cellio]

If you could have 10 knowledge modules installed in your head right now, what would they be?

(I will assume that these are modules that could currently exist, rather than things like "cure for cancer". :-) )

1. Hebrew. All flavors -- biblical, classical, modern, dilects... written and spoken.

2. Music theory. All of it -- medieval, renaissance, modern.

3. That combination of psychology, sociology, political science, and whatnot that would allow me to determine what someone means and what he's trying to do, rather than what he says.

4. Cooking technique, particularly meat, particularly red.

5. Update to current CS technologies -- design patterns (catalogue), concurrency, N-tier/peer-to-peer/client-server/other architectures, performance without sacrificing design, and much much more. (Do I have to expend a separate slot on encyclopedic knowledge of Java?)

6. Names, faces, and key facts about everyone likely to ever be relevant to me, indexed for quick and reliable access.

7. Handyman 101, including carpentry, plumbing, and electricity.

8. Playing bowed strings (viola da gamba, cello, etc -- ok, violin is ok too :-) ).

9. Literary and historic classics, indexed for retrieval by quote, obscure character name, plot point, miscellaneous factoid, and so on.

10. Photography.

Comments

[siderea]

Ten slots seems awfully generous. Correctly phrased, I expect I could get most of human knowledge into a 10-item bullet list. Like, item 1, "Music. All of it. Ever."