- Be disciplined, but stay creative.
- Ask questions, find answers.
- Be helpful, but don’t do others’ work.
- Point out mistakes, don’t blame though.
- Find bugs, help get them fixed too.
- Communicate clearly, communicate crisply.
- Do good work, showcase value.
- Do the mundane things, innovate constantly.
- Stay doggedly steadfast, but be flexible.
- Observe well, see things that are hidden.
- Stay focussed, but have a 360 degree vision.
- Have a system’s view, but know the internals.
- Think like end user, while engineering solution.
- Analyse like an engineer when working with end users.
- Do what you must, automate everything else.
- Document tersely, do voraciously.
- Find what you must, prevent what you can.
- Do less, accomplish more.
- Engineer in code, to enable finding issues.
- Have an user’s mind, engineer’s brain, eagle’s eyes and a businessman’s head.
- Read, observe, analyse, explore, experiment, prove, disprove- Actively seek out.
- Analyse quantitatively the engineering data, present qualitatively the business impact.
- Strive for clarity, visualise the flow, spot anomalies in mind’s eye
- Don’t settle, constantly churn and evolve, unsettle
- Learn constantly, unlearn continually