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To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ask if each of your guiding policies is applicable, enforced, and creates leverage:

Writing an Engineering Strategy.

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When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YOU grow your career and influence. Not management, not the company, YOU. This means constantly advocating for ways to grow: subjects to learn, projects with increased scope, and sometimes new teams or companies.

Matt Klein on Twitter: "Last Week I Sat for an Internal Interview About My Career Progression to High Level IC Engineer, With a Focus on How I've Never Felt I Needed to Become a Manager to Gain Influence. I Thought I Would Share Some of My Career Advice for Aspiring IC "Lifers." Thread!" / Twitter

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The engineers that spec out the heating and cooling systems for buildings (known as HVAC, for "heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning") use the term "design days" for the hottest or coldest days of the year, the days that demand the most of building systems, and they are usually design days for the underlying infrastructural utilities, too.

How Infrastructure Works

Deb Chachra

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