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Marek Zaluski • Edited

Great post, all six points are solid.

"Teach" and "Lead" stand out to me as super valuable.

I'm a big fan of the idea that you learn the most by sharing and teaching others, and taking the lead even when you don't have 100% of the answers yet.

Here's what I always want to tell junior developers: there's no minimum skill level that you need before you can teach others. Start a learning journal and share what you're learning right now!

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Helen Anderson

That’s excellent advice.

The graduate program at my workplace has a round of lightening talks by the grads each time they finish a rotation. I think it’s really valuable for everyone to do this kind of exercise to see how far they’ve come while reinforcing learning