14 Better Ways for Programmers to Stand Out in Their Career

Spoiler: This is not an overnight hack.

Josef Cruz
JavaScript in Plain English
4 min readDec 2, 2021

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A big mistake of ours is to think that we program for computers, as an end. Of course, we program for computers, but the end is the human. Be it the human who reads the code or the human who uses the software.

The idea is to make life easier for humans first. Of course, making machine life easier improves software performance, but this must be a consequence of improving human life.

I put together 14 better ways for programmers to stand out in programming.

1. Ask what you don’t know

Instead of wasting hours or days of work trying to find a solution on your own. Don’t be afraid of appearing incompetent to your know-it-all colleague. Acting this way eventually makes you appear incompetent to your boss and other colleagues who depend on your work.

2. Helps colleagues whenever you can.

Suppose you are at the other end of the previous point, help whenever someone is having difficulties. In fact, in my opinion, this is where an intermediate developer becomes a senior. Anyone who helps more than asks for help eventually becomes the mythical 10x engineer as he helps his teammates produce 10x…

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