TechLead, in this episode about software engineering, will teach you how to become a 10X ninja rockstar engineer. After all, he is a self-confessed 10X (or 100X or 1000X?) engineer, and definitely not a 0.1X engineer! All jokes aside, TechLead dives into some key skills that you can pick up to become a productive and respected software engineer.
Take ownership and control of your situation, instead of throwing up your hands and feeling helpless. Do not be afraid to dig around the ancient, debt-ridden code that you’re exposed to. Take ownership of fixing this code, and it becomes an opportunity for you to take ownership.
An engineer’s job is at the end of the day, execution. It doesn’t matter how much code you output, but how well your code solves a problem. However, you still need to be able to take an idea and be able to quickly bring it through reality.
Building new systems, creating code generators, creating developer tooling. If you can take a complex system, and make it easier to both work with and understand, you will start saving time for everyone involved and multiplying your impact, and respect from your peers.
Or in TechLead’s setup, multi-multi tasking. If you want to increase productivity by 10X, you can just work on 10 computers instead of just one, right?
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