Soft Skills.

Interpersonal and professional skills for engineers: the senior/staff/EM differentiator. Author-anchored to Edmondson, Scott, Rosenberg, Voss, Kahneman, Reilly, Larson, Fournier, Majors, Hogan, Beck, Weinberg, Surowiecki, Landemore, McKenzie, and the Athenian principles of isēgoria, isonomia, parrhēsia, and klēros. Covers 23 sub-skills.

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  Conflict Resolution & Disagreement

  What is the 'disagree and commit' principle?

  AAgree with everything to avoid conflictBDisagree publicly but sabotage privatelyCCommit to the decisions you personally agree withDVoice objections fully, then back the decision

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  Code Review as Social Act

  You approve a PR with one small suggestion marked non-blocking. The author merges without addressing it. What do you do?

  ANothing, you already signaled it was optional when you approvedBMessage the author asking about the skipped non-blocking commentCNote it in their next performance review as a pattern worth watchingDOpen a new PR yourself applying the suggestion you raised

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  Focus, Deep Work & Attention

  Kent Beck's XP value of 'sustainable pace' is contrasted with which alternative cadence common in crunch cultures?

  ASprint to deadline then recover laterBPair-program through every working hourCIterate weekly with fixed scope cutsDFront-load design before any coding