This is great advice for both managers and employees alike! I was told this a long time ago, "good employees come to managers with solutions, not problems." It

This is great advice for both managers and employees alike! I was told this a long time ago, "good employees come to managers with solutions, not problems." It has propelled me to be a self-managed person and it really puts me in a place of making quality contributions to the good of the company. I think this is especially important in development because if you ask for help whenever you get blocked, your coworkers have to solve all of your hard problems! This means that you don't relieve any pain from your team. However, if you instead say, "I have 3 possible solutions, what do you think about them?" , or "can you tell me the way you'd do this?" , then you can deal with the hard problems without taking up too much of your coworkers time.