I maintain something like this personally, in the form of private structured notes, and I know other engineers that do as well. Except we go beyond listing all

I maintain something like this personally, in the form of private structured notes, and I know other engineers that do as well. Except we go beyond listing all possible things that can fit into a given category, into instead making quality and suitability judgments about them. What's "best" or the no-brainer/default for a given role, either in the general case or in various special cases. It's a very useful professional technique. To wit, I generated the following page from my structured notes, and added it to my public website, a few weeks ago: http://synisma.com/comp_dump/gototech.html http://synisma.com/comp_dump/gototech.html