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Empathy. It seems to be the basis for the small degree of mechanical sympathy I have because it makes me stop and think, 'why does someone else think this is the right way of doing things?'. Good luck.
Well said.
I've been writing code since I was a kid, got an economics degree, then went to law school and practiced law for a while. Identifying objectives and finding the data that suits it has always been fun for me. Not surprising (to me, anyway), my career moved back from law to managing data and analytics as products.
Empathy. It seems to be the basis for the small degree of mechanical sympathy I have because it makes me stop and think, 'why does someone else think this is the right way of doing things?'. Good luck.
Laziness - though of course when hiring you would bill it as efficiency or "expertise in software automation". A PhD taught me that often the best way to do things is the way that lets you press one button and have everything else happen automatically. Mostly it's to make life easier, particularly when 2 months down the line you need to make a subtle code change and reprocess huge volumes of data. Being able to start…
Empathy. It seems to be the basis for the small degree of mechanical sympathy I have because it makes me stop and think, 'why does someone else think this is the right way of doing things?'. Good luck.
Knowing how to use Google really well so I can find answers to bugs, tutorials, code snippets, etc. Learned the importance of this from a wise older Chinese programmer at my first job ever, an internship: "I don't really know how to code anything, I just copy it from Google."
The believe that you can accomplish anything, just divide and conquer.
I'm serious. That IS useful.
Proper relational data modeling.
Understanding data. I've always had a fairly easy time learning core business processes and tying the data I'm looking at back to the activity that generated it. It's been really useful in managing analytics and data services because nothing I work with is a bunch of rows and columns without meaning to me, and as a result, I can deliver information based on what a given group is trying to accomplish (versus what they…