I think there's a fine line between helping your team grow and the sorta annoying self promotion I've seen people do in overly broad slack channels.

One is actually helping and the other is making yourself more visible to mgmt for promotions.

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metabagel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I rather think the opposite. People who share tips and hacks are genuinely trying to help others, while people who hoard information are competing on an individual basis without regard for team.

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davidee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please take this in good faith, as I hope your own post is, but I interpret the thread you're replying to as focusing on the "everyday' part.

Share knowledge? I don't think anyone here is arguing against that in any way (or conversely arguing for hoarding knowledge).

The concern, one I share, is where the sharing has to happen publicly "every day" - so no matter how trivial, useless, niche, overly-specific the tip is (whatever, the list isn't exclusive), someone shares it.

That's the part that's not sharing knowledge for the benefit of others, but rather self-serving. I might even go so far as to say self-serving doesn't even need to be selfish; the person might genuinely believe they're doing good, but even there, self-serving.

TLDR: Share your knowledge, don't make sharing something every day, even when you don't have something valuable to share, your target.

PS - if this note irks anyone (are routine maxxers a thing?), make the goal to learn something every day, then share where appropriate.

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aquariusDue 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep, crop dusting knowledge in a public space without at least tying it to something relevant is a faux pas in my book.

Offering to teach someone something proactively? Sure, go ahead.

Sharing stuff freely when asked and arming someone with the tools to investigate further? Amazing!

Treating a public channel like ye olde facebok wall? Mildly annoying.

	▲	BeetleB 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Treating a public channel like ye olde facebok wall? Mildly annoying. Every team/department/org/whatever should have channels everyone should subscribe to, and channels individuals set up that are optional for everyone. The appropriate way to handle this is for the OP to write a few tips once in a while in the public channel, and if people seem to like it, announce that all future tips will be in that channel.

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soulofmischief an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends on the banality of the tips.

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BeetleB 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We work in very different places. Wherever I've worked, the guy who knows all these tricks is not the guy getting promoted. Senior management doesn't care about your shell or scripting skills. Sure - they make you more productive, but at a very local level (may be good for a single promotion early in your career).

Most senior engineers I've worked with have forgotten all these tricks, and they actively tell you that while you should try to get better at these things, career gains lie elsewhere. Focus on things with higher impact.