The greatest gifts of wisdom

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The greatest gifts of wisdom

Some of the greatest gifts of software wisdom have all been given to me by the same wonderful colleague. One of the wisest and most brilliant engineers I know. I want to collate them. 

Without revealing his identity. But maybe I will send this to him. Who knows

Wisdom

  • When you are working as well as having coding blocks in your calendar schedule the name of the exact ticket you want to work on 
  • And schedule what you want to achieve with it as well
And then
  • He said to me today that everything is coming together which is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said
And:
  • He taught me how to do verbose commits and I cannot commit now without them
  • They help me with my narration so much
  • He taught me to request to write my own tickets and scope them
  • With my own use cases
  • And user stories
  • And acceptance criteria 
  • This has helped me soo much
And:
  • He banned me from having slack on my phone
  • He banned me once again from having slack on my phone
  • Another mentor backed him up on this and now I have a joint ban
  • Between them I have somehow gotten slack off my phone
  • This is doing amazing things for me
  • He taught me that perceptions of people can change very quickly and he taught me that the way you change people’s perceptions of you is by doing the work
  • There is so much more and so much more wisdom tucked away in my notes but I really liked what he said about having a narrative around my notes
Thank you

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