Ask HN: What non-technical skill boosted your engineering career the most?

1 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by pranav_tech26

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8 Comments

pelagic_sky

10 hours ago

Managing up. Telling my boss what they wanted to know before they had to ask me for it.

WheelsAtLarge

11 hours ago

Networking, some people hate it but it makes careers so learn to do it.

I didn't see it until after the fact but preventing burn out. I was tech 100% and loved every bit. Eventually I burned out and it severely impacted my ability to stay up to date with new tech.

dlcarrier

10 hours ago

Being able to quickly write, to the point that documenting isn't a bother, makes things much easier to keep track of and share with others.

herbst

11 hours ago

Honestly: Lazyness. Nearly all I do has being lazy as core motive. Never create myself more work.

dlcarrier

10 hours ago

I count that as an engineering skill. If someone didn't learn engineering in a series of attempts to automate away tasks, they're not going to be a good engineer.

bdangubic

11 hours ago

so much this. I’ve been in the industry for three decades and absolute thread that connects the best people I’ve ever worked with is that they are lazy at their core. laziness breeds automation, removes duplication and redundancy (and boredom).

user

11 hours ago

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