😎 My strategy to become a TOP 1% engineer

Avoiding the TOP 1% sleep-deprived

How do you become an outlier?

Doing things other people don’t.

You don’t need to come up with big innovations.

It’s about having positive side effects on anything you do. Midas’ golden touch.

It’s about under-promising and over-delivering.

We all have a promise of expectations based on our role and level.

Let’s audit our work as engineers to find opportunities to over-deliver.

⭐ In this post, you’ll learn:

• How to make an impact when writing code and documents

• How to improve your team’s life when being on-call

• How to turn meetings into a fun game (at least for yourself)

• How to earn trust by over-communicating

👨‍💻 Writing code

Apply the boy-scout rule: Leave it better than you found it.

Refactor, add tests to untested functionality and contribute to the readme.

This is not about doing work outside of your scope.

But about improving the files files you have to modify them.

📝 Writing documents

Doesn’t matter if it’s a te…