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Discussion on: New Job? Do these 8 things!

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Nice article, I agree on all points.

Get your machine set up for success. Take setup seriously.

On a tactical level, getting this out of the way is key in my opinion.

If you don't, you will waste so much time in the first week that you will hardly be in a good position to do everything else.

So I would invite everyone to research what practical things he can do to not fuck up here.

Some suggestions:

  • Send an email to the company asking how this is supposed to work before your first day
  • Ask your colleagues what are the most important tools that they are using
  • E.g. on macOS you can ask them to do $ brew list && brew cask list => brew.sh/
  • Manage your dotfiles dotfiles.github.io/
  • Personally I am doing this: github.com/jmfayard/dotfiles
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Zachary R. Lupstein

Thanks! Really like your suggestions as well!