1. Strategist
   • solution oriented not code oriented
   • understands that planning is more important than execution
2. Gives reasons not excuses
   • excuse: “I tried Q, it didn’t work!”
   • reason: “I tried Q, didn’t work because we don’t have X in place. We can either do Y or Z.”
3. Use tools, not letting tools use them
   • tools are not suppose to be cool, they can be; Some are…but yeah, the shiniest tool might not be for you
4. Embrace challenges
   • see obstacles as opportunities rather than barriers
5. Eager to act on new information
   • not to serve a master, just excited to put fresh information to use
   • are the first in line to accept a task when it is presented on a subject they are unfamiliar with.
6. Who understand there is no one’s code…it’s everyone’s
   • by allowing a piece of code to exists in the codebase (ownership by endorsement)
7. Professional
   • do what they promised to do

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