🔑 Key Takeaways

These are some of the 🔑 key takeaways from The Staff Engineer's Path for me.

On relationships outside your team and organization: establish and maintain them.

Does what you are doing right now matter? Articulate how.

"Someone should do something"

If you look at a situation and think "someone should do something", that someone is probably you. You don't have to do everything and you should not do ANY thing but you should do something.

Using your influence for good

Be approachable. It should be "worth it" for folks to come to you.

• be helpful
  • don't info dump but...
  • answer the direct question and any implicit asks
• help individuals, help the team
• empower others to help others
• be the colleague you'd like to have

At Scale

This can be done through writing and public speaking for most. Other opportunities vary by organization and by the individual.

You're an influencer now, sorry.

The three parts were:

• The Big Picture
  • where are we? where are we going? are we going together?
• Execution
• Leveling Up
  • the team as well as yourself