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Post #1161250

2026-04-14 06:12 UTC

If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include: - ecological awe - intellectual humility - respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems - cross functional communication - resilience engineering - marketing and sales (“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)

Replies (8)

  • @Tomhodson@tech.lgbt 2026-04-14 06:22

    @hazelweakly “respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems” This, a thousand times this.

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  • @usul@piaille.fr 2026-04-14 06:22

    @hazelweakly that's a support engineer's job description

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  • @hazelweakly this, so much this. Tech shit I can teach. I've never managed to successfully teach empathy to someone who lacks it.

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  • @romeu@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 06:38

    @hazelweakly « being able to reformulate back what a person said, specially if you disagree with it. to the point the person feels at least heard: maybe even understood » is like my number one by far

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  • @distractal@hachyderm.io 2026-04-14 18:40

    @hazelweakly Curious, what do you mean by marketing and sales?

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  • @davemangot@hachyderm.io 2026-04-14 18:40

    @hazelweakly if this is true, and I'd argue it is, why are people in such a panic that agents write some code? It would seem these are the things to focus on for impact. I never started freaking out when Puppet started writing Apache httpd instead of using vi(1). I moved on to higher level concerns. Yet many people are in a frenzy because Claude wrote a for loop instead of them doing it by hand.

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  • @yala@degrowth.social 2026-04-25 12:23

    @hazelweakly Do you know good CC / open / free learning material about that 'marketing & sales' dimension? I'm willing to listen why you find that important, but would need some resources to get familiar with the field. Is there anything like 'ethical marketing & sales'?

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  • @dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 09:17

    @hazelweakly 1,000,000% … and humble curiosity, rather than ego-centric “know-it-all”. Keep looking for validated and evidenced “because …”. Then share generously.

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