Listen more than you talk. Read more than you write. Don't ask people what they want, watch what they do.
This is one of my favourite blog posts of all time: https://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter-doing-wi... I sometimes tell this story to people. Many don't get it. A staff engineer needs to get it. A staff engineer will quietly watch and realise all the junior and seniors are merely churning away solving the wrong problems.
This is one of my favourite blog posts of all time: https://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter-doing-wi... I sometimes tell this story to people. Many don't get it. A staff engineer needs to get it. A staff engineer will quietly watch and realise all the junior and seniors are merely churning away solving the wrong problems.