Mentoring" Being the help you wish you'd had"
summary
Sound quality is bad for the first 90 seconds then clears. Mentoring is concrete: three years of mentoring yields measurable gains—better confidence, clearer communication, more patience, and cognitive diversity in teams. Practical tactics: set expectations, write mutual roles, schedule reviews, celebrate wins, sponsor mentees and try backwards mentoring. A specific example shows user research changing design: a giant purple rosette button labelled leave site lets vulnerable users quickly escape a page.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52BEING THE HELP YOU WISH YOU'D HAD
- 6:01TEACHING OTHERS WILL CEMENT YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE
- 9:51ALWAYS BE EXCITED ABOUT LEARNING
- 11:47PERFECTION IS UNNECESSARY IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE & HARMFUL TO PROMOTE
- 15:14ANSWERING QUESTIONS WILL INCREASE YOUR RESERVES OF PATIENCE
- 17:35DEVELOP YOUR COGNITIVE DIVERSITY
- 19:10MENTORING ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE TECH
- 20:54THERE IS NO RIGHT PATH INTO TECH
