Daily Dose of Curious

The best engineers I have worked with ask more than they answer. That is not a gap in what they know.

03 SEP 2026LEARNING

There is a temptation, walking in as the engineer, to believe the job is to arrive already knowing. Every genuinely good one I have stood next to does the opposite: they ask the site, they ask the user, they ask the person who has been doing it longer. It looks like uncertainty and it is the fastest route to being right.

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