Break your expectation, read real signals, question the unconventional
to seek adaptable truth
Coaching Skills
- Fact about expectations - Charlie Munger
- Social Intelligence
- What other pay
- How to control and manipulate the decision
- Write a ADR
- Thinking of others - My missing piece
- Kind of people
- State a strong argument
- System Design Structured
- DSA Implementation Structured
- Software Engineer Level Growth
- How to be a player - Game Theory
- How to coach others
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Clarity values - what they need in others is what they miss in their
childhood.
- Signals - how you observe other with facts not assumptions
- Control Assumptions - Based on signals, not your expectations
- How to detect a sentence is lie or truth
- Persuade Skills - Get them to do what you want
- Buyers and Sellers - Understand the needs of the other party
- Love Advices
- How to treat an introverted
Software Engineer Skills
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Coding Skills: Latter solution is better than
previous solution.
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System Design: Design high-level solution +
verified each requirement and enhanced questions and facts (metrics,
current system).
How to Deal with Uncertain Problems
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Telemetry First: Identify service dependencies and
understand how services interact.
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Explore Service Endpoints: Examine the HTTP and
gRPC endpoints exposed by each service.
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High-Level Thinking (Intuitive Curiosity):
Understand the overall architecture and product vision from Figma
designs and system design documents.
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Explore the Flow: Trace the end-to-end request flow
and identify the core functions within the codebase.
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Testing: Run the application and test API endpoints
to verify inputs, outputs, and expected behavior.
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Coding: Optimize the implementation and perform
thorough code reviews.
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Monitoring: Add meaningful metrics, logs, and
alerts to observe the health and performance of the feature.
Grill weaknesses
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Meta thinking first: Draw high-level idea map
before doing anything.
- Structured Thinking: Order the actions.
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Implementation Skills: Understand full flow, not
only tickets.
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Retain long-term knowledge: store facts, feedback,
concepts, active retrieve it in long-term knowledge base.
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Present for impact (teach, convince, motivate):
stimulate to explain your thinking for other people follow Feynman
Technique, 3-sentences rules for other needs, use body language and
focus to main point to grab user attention.
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Improve quality of outreach, connections: enhance
outreach to open communicate with strangers, value connections, and
make service for community.
Frame A Decision
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Fact is what happening.
Proposal comes with trade-offs and reasons.
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Needs are about survival.
Wants are about desires.
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How to learn new thing: See it
(mostly 70%). Do it (for high-execution required
skills). Feedback it (be corrective feedback with
insights)
Socratic Questions
My expectations 2026
