If you’re in tech and wanna talk to one of the kindest, smartest folks I know, you can sign up for [Brian’s] office hours here. I just did.

As I write the code to add two product improvements to Out of Office Hours, I want to take a minute to document the changes and the thought behind

“10. After a task, project or pairing session, ask them what they would have done differently to expedite their learning. This will encourage them to reflect, gain meta-awareness about how they best learn and iterate for future work.”

“Mentorship, by contrast, is inherently performative. It will be imperfect. It will be messy. But it can be so valuable, and so rewarding. Embrace the messiness.”

“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous”