- understanding your tools: what are you using day in, day out. are there "tricks" or efficiencies you can gain by learning them better? can spending time impro

- understanding your tools: what are you using day in, day out. are there "tricks" or efficiencies you can gain by learning them better? can spending time improving or perfecting your abilities here offer marginal improvement that will pay back and compound over the long run? - understanding your domain: having breadth and depth of knowledge in what you are building. what is the "pattern language" of your work? can you set up the scaffolding for your project faster/more efficiently each time because you have seen it before? are there common "gotchas" in your line of work that the uninitiated might not know? - understanding yourself: how do you work best? times of the day, locations but also personal nutrition, sleep, exercise, etc? how can you remove obstacles to get into flow state when needed? - understanding others: who are you working with? what unique relational aspects might improve the flow of discourse and work between them? can you cut through bureaucracy? can you word things for more effective impact? much like your own working preferences, what are the timing/style/mode/etc dynamics within a group that you can tweak to improve upon?