So moved, listening to @ClintSmithIII at the @PanoramaEd back to school virtual summit. How The Word is Passed is the most powerful book I’ve read in a long time.
“It's never too late to do the work of 'unlearning'.” –Dr. Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) at @PanoramaEd Virtual Summit #PanoSummit
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As a senior engineer in a new role, it's tempting to focus on bold, sweeping changes that justify your lofty title. This is a mistake. Your first order of business is building trust with your team. Nothing erodes that trust like revisiting plans they're already executing on.
Optimism does not mean being blind to the actual reality of a situation. It means maintaining a positive spirit to continue to seek a solution to any given problem. And it means recognizing that any given situation has many different aspects—positive as well as problematic.
“Genius cannot explain its own workings” - a paraphrase of Kant
But just because you can’t explain your code, doesn’t make it genius.
Maybe the real genius is explaining what we made, so that the next generation can go farther.