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This chapter alone is SDE Mentoring 101. Many of my mentees through the years have struggled in these areas, and improvement is often following these principles, whether by design or by accident.

This is a “soft” skills chapter, yes. Later ones get much more technical. However, most tech ICs (and managers) don’t struggle with technology; we struggle learning these lessons ad-hoc, through experience.

– Harold, 08 January 2020

Foreward & Preface

They don’t talk down to you. They don’t assume you are an expert. … They take you as you are–programmers who just want to be better.