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[5/16]\n\n- [ ] become an expert in a domain/technology/language (databases, machine learning, Python)\n\n- [x] get to a point where you can drop into new situations or technologies and quickly start making a big impact\n\n- [ ] do research-y work / something that’s never been done before\n\n- [ ] satisfy your intellectual curiosity about something\n\n- [x] get comfortable with really big codebases\n\n- [ ] work on a system that has X scale/complexity (millions of requests per second, etc)\n\n- [ ] scale a project way past its original design goals\n\n- [ ] do work that saves the company a large amount of money\n\n- [ ] be an incident commander for an incident and run the postmortem\n\n- [x] make an contribution to an open source project\n\n- [x] get better at some skill (testing / debugging / a programming language / machine learning)\n\n- [ ] become a core maintainer for an important OSS project\n\n- [ ] build an important system from scratch\n\n- [ ] be involved with a product/project from start to end (over several years)\n\n- [ ] understand how complex systems fail (and how to make them not fail)\n\n- [x] be able to build prototypes quickly for new ideas\n\n- [ ] Become better OS, Complier and Security.\n\n## Job Goals - 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