Intern season is starting up in a lot of places, so today's tweets will be dedicated to my former interns.

Search on Google or Stack Overflow for something before asking for help. If someone asked me for something (non-confidential) before searching, they got an lmgtfy link. 1/

If the search results are confusing after 30-60 minutes, please ask for help.

Don't spend the whole day stuck on something. Often all it takes is a revision of your search terms/vocabulary to get back on the right track. 2/

It's okay not to have a super specific question, but it is helpful to be able to point at some words or documents or diagrams and say "this is confusing".

If I have some anchor, I can usually use that as a starting point to triage how to unstuck someone.

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Especially during WFH, I think asking questions can be more intimidating. IMO, anything you'd turn around and externally process at a coworker IRL is fair game for "can you hop on a quick call?" for screensharing & debugging.

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