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Everyone agrees that constant learning and having a growth mindset are fundamental to success in software engineering. Yet once you are done with onboarding at your new job as a software engineer the rat race seems to begin, leaving no dedicated time for learning.

Asking questions is a basic coaching technique but doing it properly is a matter of practice, finding a good balance and avoiding some common pitfalls. As with most of the things in life.

A practical guide to one-on-ones: what they are for, how to run them well, and the mistakes that make them pointless.

Don't limit yourself with excuses. How you are can change and it is completely up to you.

Hero engineers can be deadly to team culture, it's time to retire those capes.

Try this instead: every time you feel the urge to write code, instead spend the time reading or learning something related to management.

The key to progress is the temptation of constant challenge, with tasks that remain both achievable and interesting, broken up into pieces of work that are just right.