Bonus Tuesday tweet thread time! But this one is short, it's about technical leadership ... and it's about how can we help people who are really REALLY smart? Smarter than you smart, in a lot of cases.
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In one tweet: as a mentor to someone inexperienced, at the start of their journey, it's your job to leave them knowing more. But as a mentor to someone advanced, who is deep into something, it's your job to leave them knowing less.
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When you're new to something, the best gifts are pointers to knowledge, primers, walk-throughs, straightforward answers, it's a lot of skill building. But when you're really really smart and expert, the most common mistake is not seeing your own assumptions.
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The best way to help really really smart people is to question their assumptions, and to reframe problems and ideas. The best gift is removing the walls they've built around their own mental models and leaving them a green field to build in again. To "know" less.
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Thankfully, this is usually best achieved by asking the kinds of questions a 5 year old would ask. Big simple obvious "Why does it have to be like that"s that seem "too stupid" to ask, and so no-one else has.
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I love when people do this to me ... to have ideas "popped" and be left free to re-imagine a whole space with a new context.
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