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The Effective Engineer (Part 2: Execute, execute, excute (4. Invest in…

- - - - Continous Deployment is primary advantage is risk reduction
    - - "I found that almost successful people write a lot of tools. A very good indicator of future success was if the first thing someone did on a problem was to write a tool"
        Bobby Johson, former Facebook Director of Infrastructure Engineering
      - If you have to do something manually more than twice, then write a tool for the third time
        Raffi Krikorian, former VP of Platform Engineering at Twitter
      - Start small.
        Find an area where a tool could save time build it and demostrate its value
    - - Get proficient with your favorite text editor or IDE
        
        Google : productivity tips for your IDE
      - Learn at least one productive, high-level programing language
      - Automate your manual workflow
      - Dùng testing tool chạy subtest of tests mà liên quan đến chỗ sửa code thôi
      - Bottleneck
        
        on other people
        
        Làm việc giữa các bên để clear
        
        on key decision-maker
        
        build những bản prototype, xin ý kiến họ (hoặc những người thường xuyền làm việc với họ). Đừng để hoàn thành mới submit thì dễ có khả năng k đúng ý
  - - - If you cant measure it, you cant improve it
        Peter Drucker - The effective Executive
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      - It 's worth asking yourself
        is there some way to measure the progress of what i m doing?
        If a task i m working on doesnt move a core metric, is it worth doing?
    - - Consider these:
        Hours worked per week ___ vs. ___ Productivity per week
        (ex. product quality, site speed, user growth)
        Click through rates ___ vs. ___ Long click through rates
        Average response time ___ vs. ___ 95th or 99th percentile response times
        Registered users ___ vs. ___ Weekly growth rate of registerd users
        Weekly active users ___ vs. ___ Weekly active rate by age of cohour
        (Measure the fraction of users who are still weekly actives the nth week after signing up, and track how that number changes over time
      - Pick the right metric applies to your personal goals
        
        Ví dụ từ tác giả
        Đổi từ viết 3h/day sang 1000words/day để viết nhanh hơn, thay vì chỉ dành 3 tiếng liên tục revisit, rewrite thì vì tạo nội dung mới
        
        Should be
        
        Maximize impact
        
        are Actionable
        
        are Responsive
- - - - Invest in skills that are high demand
        
        Job Desciption yêu cầu những skills gì mà bạn thấy thú vị
        Xem xét trend của thị trường
      - Join a discussin group
        
        Attend talks, conference and meetups
      - Write to learn
        
        Viết blog
      - Side project
        
        Even ones not realted to engineering
      - Pursue what you love
        
        Đừng dành thời gian để surfing, TV
        Dành thời gian cho việc mình love, motivated
      - How can I improve?
        
        How could I done this better?
        
        What should I learn next to best prepare me for the future
    - - Nắm cơ hội học tại chỗ làm
        Học từ người giỏi nhất
        Đọc hết tất cả những nguồn học thuật của công ty
      - Học ngoài nơi làm việc
        Không cần learrning phải liên quan đến engineer,
        a happier and better learner sẽ giúp in the long run
  - - - Focus on task directly bring a product closer to launch
        Directly impact the core business metric
      - Bỏ qua những task it impact:
        
        Viết report
        
        Đi họp
        
        Trả lời cuộc đối thoại kém quan trọng
      - One you 're producing result, few people will complain about declined meetings, slow email response times, non-urgent bugs not being fixed
        When you get the important things right, the small things often dont' matter
      - ƯU tiên viêc most value with the least amount of effort
      - Lable everything on hí to do list from 1 to 4
    - - Flow
      - It take 10-15' to return to focused acitivity
      - Preserve larger blocks of focused time in your schedule
        Nếu mà có việc không quan trọng, người nhờ vả, thì nói họ mình sẽ vui lòng làm trước hoặc sau khi mình break giữa các block
      - Say NO to unimportant:
        
        Meeting mà k cần sự có mặt của mình
        
        ...
    - - Example:
        If it's right after dinner, then I ll watch a lecture on Android development
      - Filling the gap
        If I only have 20 minutes before my next activity, then I will do _____
        
        code review, writing interview feedback, responding to emails, small bugs, writing a isolated unit test
    - - A common pitfall for many engineers is neglecting to revisit those priorities
      - Có thể kết hợp với routine khác, ví dụ tới quán cf take away và dành 10' để prioritize
      - Trong sách có ví dụ, có thể revisit