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Comment on Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?parent

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Do you have a good way to identify and question your assumptions? You're right in that there's learned patterns that have worked well in situations which I'll keep applying moving forwards, although I do try to enumerate the trade-offs. There's probably blind spots there.

Instead, find people who ask good questions (those with the least experience often ask the best ones) and be open to exploring those questions together. It's hard

Great call out. Tangentially, if I'm being honest, not knowing answers to basic questions makes my insecurities surface, definitely a character flaw to work through.

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