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If you often find yourself requesting help, ask yourself "what would X do in this situation"? I often find I can anticipate the questions a colleague would ask me when I present them a problem I'm facing. Sometimes simply trying to answer those questions will reveal the solution. Good questions for any problem are:

* When did this start happening?

* What changed between when it was working when it stopped working?

* Have you asked person Y who worked on that change?



100%. Perhaps this is due to my work being WFH, but my version of this is that I start typing on Slack to describe my problem, and further debugging steps I could take pop into my head.


Exactly the same thing happens to me :)




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