Be Nice
»From the manifesto part of the brain.
With two years of full time professional employment under my belt, two of the most important things I’ve learnt so far don’t even have anything to do with my software engineering background.
The first was by a former software engineering professor of mine at ASU.
Be tactful. I hear stories from industry about a new kid right out of college attending his or her first meeting and they would just start shouting out their thoughts on how this and that design should be. Don’t Do That.
And the second was by one of my former boss’ at Thomson Financial:
Never make your boss look bad.