"If you can reach your goal by empowering someone else to do better work, that’s just as much a victory as if you solve it yourself. Consider your impact to be what wouldn’t have happened without you, not just what you personally did."—The Staff Engineer's Path
"If you can’t resist the urge to include your most brilliant ideas in the process, then you can include them in your prework. Write all of your best ideas in a giant document, delete it, and never mention any of them again. Now that those ideas are out of your head, your head is cleared for the work ahead."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"if you could speak only a few words per month, you would probably try to make them worth listening to"By Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 3rd Edition
"If you ever find yourself in a conversation with an unclear goal, then define the purpose. Take a moment to ask if your understanding of what the group hopes to accomplish is correct."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"If you have no objections, say so."—The Staff Engineer's Path