Communicate like a Senior: Use clear deltas

Thank you so much for helping to make this happen. In true High Growth Engineer fashion, I have a little celebration video at the end (not axe throwing this time) 😄. I’m experimenting with a new series: Communicate like a Senior. Each article will feature 1 essential tip for communicating more like a Senior+ engineer. Each tip will highlight 3+ use cases where you can apply it immediately. Let’s get into it! You’re likely familiar with the term “code smell”—like a 4-level deep if-statement. But I’m inventing a new term called “communication smell.” A communication smell is the same idea, except it’s when you notice a bad pattern in your communication. One communication smell I see looks like this: ❌ We can improve the load time by caching images on a CDN. “Improve” is vague. Would it improve by .0001 seconds, 1 second, 3 seconds? Sure, it will improve the load time. That’s great! But what about the 20 other things that improve the load time? Why should we do this over those? Here’s an

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