Be a good junior

September 17, 2024

Beaming, bright-eye'd intern's manifesto:

  • be coachable
  • you're a C player that needs to become an A player
  • admit when your knowledge is fragile; work so that it is not
  • go all the way; don't get blocked just because it's not your part of the stack
  • spending countless hours makes you hard to compete with
  • don't have ulterior motives
  • spend time thinking about the most important problems
  • power dynamics and status games boil down to being nice and being useful
  • do it with heart