Some brief thoughts: - have a great note taking system - personally I like anything which auto links to related notes, like a wiki. There's obsidian, but I use

Some brief thoughts: - have a great note taking system - personally I like anything which auto links to related notes, like a wiki. There's obsidian, but I use vim notes as I like vim and need to keep internal stuff out of cloud. - get involved in cross team initiatives - will help build domain knowledge and relationships - for digging through codebases one thing I'd like to try and haven't got round to is using a lightweight IDE just for hunting around and joining up the dots. Eg the main IDE I use is heavyweight with all the indexing it does. Sometimes I'd rather have a local "monorepo" with lightweight tooling which isn't always indexing or spawning daemons. On that last point, get your tooling to work for you exceptionally well. Any friction will add up over time and discourage quick experiments or exploration. Hope it goes well!