How do you become an outlier?
Doing things other people donāt.
You donāt need to come up with big innovations.
Itās about having positive side effects on anything you do. Midasā golden touch.
Itās about under-promising and over-delivering.
We all have a promise of expectations based on our role and level.
Letās audit our work as engineers to find opportunities to over-deliver.
āĀ In this post, youāll learn:
How to make an impact when writing code and documents
How to improve your teamās life when being on-call
How to turn meetings into a fun game (at least for yourself)
How to earn trust by over-communicating
šØāš»Ā 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.
šĀ Writing documents
Doesnāt matter if itās a teā¦
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