Coaching practices for Boss is Suggesting I Learn the Codebase in My Free Time

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• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work
• I keep practicing the whole thing over and over and my overall level just won’t budge
• I’ll grind on the same not-quite-working approach for months before adjusting anything, then change five things at once
• I want to learn this thing but I’ve just grabbed the first course I found and I’m already lost
• I only check in on whether something’s working every few months, and by then I can barely remember what I even tried

Practices that may help

1. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
2. Drill: attack your weakest sub-skill
   Isolate the rate-limiting component and drill it directly.
   Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
3. Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
   Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
4. Metalearning: map the skill before you start
   Research how the skill is structured and learned before diving in.
   Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
5. Shorten your PDSA cycles until feedback is near-daily
   More loops beat longer loops: compress the cycle time to accelerate learning.
   Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
6. Study a fully worked example before attempting a new problem type
   Read through a completely solved example and understand each step before you try to solve anything yourself.
   The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First
7. Follow explicit rules and procedures without improvisation at the novice stage
   When new to a domain, follow the given rules precisely — understanding comes after compliance, not before.
   The Dreyfus Model: Five Stages from Novice to Expert
8. Fade from worked examples to independent problems as competence grows
   Start with fully solved examples, transition through completion problems, then shift to full independent problem-solving.
   The Expertise Reversal Effect: When Help Becomes Harmful
9. Deliberate pattern exposure
   Study worked examples and annotated cases to build a library of recognizable patterns.
   Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss
10. Decompose complex skills into learnable chunks
    Break the overwhelming skill into named, discrete sub-skills and practice one at a time.
    The Confidence–Competence Loop

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