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James McPhee

The most important thing I had to learn as a lead/senior was to give positive feedback as/more often than negative. Reinforcing what someone did was correct is worth more than pointing out where they are wrong. After all, there's an infinitude of ways to do something wrong, but only a few to do it right. Building those mental models is key.

Also, if people only interact with you when you're telling them they're wrong, they shut down when you approach.