How To Be An Amazing Mentor In 2023

In this video I give you some tools that will help you be an effective mentor.

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The most important currency you have is your undivided attention. This book shows you exactly how to spend this currency in a manner that will lead to head-turning accomplishment.

SYSTEM DESIGN
Currently the best reference for contemporary for system design.

For interviews, the best references are System Design Interview and System Design Interview Volume 2 by Alex Xu.

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[deemon]

"Okay. Let's get back to me. Me. Me. Me." 🤣

[williamhumphries]

Love the presentation skills you have and how simple and straightfoward you make your advice :)

[codingwithmitch]

That new haircut looking slick, uncle S.

[deathbombs]

I like the breakdown that it comes down to making positive change, and that listening weeds out nuances and bad assumptions.

A lot aligns with a problem solving mindset in the human space

[anniephan]

Awesome video as always. I am rewatching this and taking notes. I like how you speak so objectively and give concrete examples. As a mentee it's making me reflect on the mentors and coaches I've had this year - whether their background resonates with the challenges I'm currently facing, and whether their advice aligns with where I want to take my organization and personal career. As a mentor it's making me realize that I haven't been the best mentor at all! Your video was perfect timing for me since the end of the year is always a time for reflection and goal setting. Thank you!

[Neonb]

Wow, really good to hear the story about the mentee, I need to listen better in meetings, but ACTIVELY listen and consider whether my objection is substantive enough to voice

Definitely good to hear someone else's experience to soften how offended I get; everyone can relate to someone else's human shortcomings but hearing brutal honesty directly to my face is harder to swallow

Appreciate the vid as usual, Steve

[RawCoding]

As always great advice, if you find a mentor those videos are going to be legendary!

[ludomirwanot]

Great work!! Very organized and easy to understand. Love how passionate you are about these topics

[healthfitness]

Hey Steve, Are you truly passionate about software and coding? I’m a SWE but I don’t think I’m truly passionate about it. I see and hear stories of people that can’t help but code, contribute to open source, build new projects, etc. after work but I just never had that impulse. What advice do you have for someone who is just in it to pay the bills and isn’t necessarily dreaming about coding in their sleep? Thanks

[jordanhasnolife]

Telling a Microsoft L8 friend of mine to apply haha

[techmentormaria]

Thank you for sharing! This will help so many people entering the tech industry next year.

[Arkaaito]

Okay, this is a brilliantly cool concept. I hope you end up making a follow-up video to this, with some examples of what questions you'd ask your mentor. (Even though I'm not the person you're looking for [only L6], I think it will allow those who *are* good mentor candidates to better self-select.)

[mangos]

Thank you. This is very insightful. Will help me in my mentorship skills and interviews

[MuhammadDaif]

Thank you for all the effort you're putting into this. Your videos are very useful :-)

[alexewerlof]

Like the usage of the zoom effect for important sentences but it's a bit overused. 1 minute in and I feel like I need to just listen to audio.

[chrisburns]

Would be interested in seeing you make a video on your thoughts/experiences with manager versus high level tech IC career path!

[arcadiatf]

John Carmack should mentor uncle Steve

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

You should get the deliberate engineer to work with you!!

[azv]

You should reach out to Khe Hy and see if he’ll mentor you, I watched him coach Ali Abdaal and it was enlightening.

[justaquestion]

I am 47 and am considering starting the coding rout. I have a lot of leadership experiance, but am frustrated with current SAS and know I can do better. Is it too late to make the change as a career with all the layoffs in the market today and my age?