Mentoring

Sharing what you know is one of the highest-leverage things you can do on a team. It stops the same problem being solved twice and it compounds over time. The key is to do it deliberately — prepare and teach, don't just answer in passing.

Approach

• Prepare like a teacher. Do not wing it. Structure the explanation, pick a concrete example, and think about where someone will get stuck. Preparing to teach is also the fastest way to find the holes in your own understanding.
• Teach the why. Handing over a fix solves today. Explaining the reasoning solves the next ten times it comes up.
• Write it down. Turn a good explanation into a doc, a note, or an update to the project memory so it outlives the conversation.

Defaults

• Knowledge shared compounds; knowledge hoarded rots.
• If you can teach it clearly, you actually understand it.

Stack

Knowledge sharing · Technical writing · Pairing & review