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@ -268,6 +268,15 @@ There are some free books available, including:
- Make debugging easier - Make debugging easier
- When working on a team, you should usually ask the question - When working on a team, you should usually ask the question
- Shipping cadence matters a lot. Think hard about what will get you shipping quickly and often - Shipping cadence matters a lot. Think hard about what will get you shipping quickly and often
- [Expert Generalists](https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html), martinfowler.com, proposes an interesting take on the "T-shaped engineer"
- The Characteristics of an Expert Generalist: Curiosity, Collaborativeness, Customer Focus, Favor Fundamental Knowledge, Blend of Generalist and Specialist Skills, Sympathy for Related Domains
- Assessing Expert Generalists: hiring and career progression
- Growing Expert Generalists: From Tools to Fundamentals
- "Why does our attention keep drifting toward tool expertise? It isn't because people are shortsighted or lazy; it's because the fundamentals are hard to see amid the noise."
- Expert Generalists still need Specialists
- Expert Generalists in the Age of LLMs
- "Similarly to a specialist, an LLM can rapidly answer questions that an Expert Generalist will have when working in a new domain."
- "Rather than looking for “the answer”, they prompt them to generate questions, explaining mechanisms, and providing examples and even tools that help explore the underlying mechanisms of an idea."
## Other general material and list of resources ## Other general material and list of resources