tl;dr rely even more on others in the most transparent way to constantly get unblocked as quickly as possible. Don’t let your ego stop you from learning someth

tl;dr rely even more on others in the most transparent way to constantly get unblocked as quickly as possible. Don’t let your ego stop you from learning something. I’m grunching this thread. But I have 20ish years of experience and consider myself a decent debugger and considered enough so by others that I’ve been asked this line of questioning while in a mentorship role on a number of occasions. The number one thing is simply humility; asking the dumb question in the smartest way you can, as quickly as possible, to the person who can most likely give you the best answer. As you’re learning and starting out, you may not have great resources for such, but within most orgs you should be able to find where the answers are, and first ask the dumb questions (caveated by what you do understand), then eventually ask for a brain dump. It is through the accumulation of tons of disparate idiosyncratic knowledge that little clues and common patterns emerge that allow people to sniff out a root cause hypothesis before the facts are even in, and often be right. But people who hide their ignorance, refuse to ask questions that may make them look silly, refuse to be the idiot in the room, they learn much less quickly because they don’t get unblocked as quickly.