5 More Things World-Class Engineers Do That You Don’t

At Deel, I created a PR to modify a shared database table used across all teams. When I announced my intention to merge it in the developers Slack channel, many people from senior tech leads to CTO jumped in to warm me against it. That felt embarrassing, but I learned more about the tradeoffs and alternatives than I could alone. Collect your battle scars at work. If you aren’t making embarrassing mistakes, you aren’t learning the lessons that will make you elite.