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  "note": "If you build software you also run software, and if you run software that stuff is going to break, guaranteed. And when it does you jump in and start **troubleshooting**. Historically the great troubleshooters in technology teams were your ops teams, but these days everyone needs troubleshooting skills. I often have heard grizzled vets in tech shake their heads when seeing more junior engineers troubleshoot. It is a skill that is often learned in the crucible of a problem. It is mostly taught through apprentice-like functions. This post does a good job of breaking down the components.\n\n> I'll define troubleshooting as **systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it**.\n> \n> Troubleshooting is often learned tacitly, in the process of explicitly learning \"the skill\". Troubleshooting is rarely discussed as a _skill unto itself_. But many features of an effective approach to troubleshooting are domain-agnostic.\n> \n> Realizing that I spend more time _troubleshooting_ than I do _building_ or _doing_, and that the skill of troubleshooting can be honed separately from the domain it's applied to, I decided to try to figure out how to improve my troubleshooting skills -- and as a result, my effectiveness in multiple domains.\n\nLearning troubleshooting as a skill, a discipline that you can refine over time, will benefit anyone working in technology. And probably other careers too… ",
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