Ducks are awesome. They have some remarkable properties – their feet don't get cold, they eat rocks, have three eyelids with 340 degree vision and c

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Ducks are awesome. They have some remarkable properties – their feet don't get cold, they eat rocks, have three eyelids with 340 degree vision and can fly up to 21,000 feet into the air (and hit a Jet flying over Nevada in 1962, that's how we know).

The takeaway from this should be: quack more. Ducks, acclaimed to be the quackiest of birds, still don't quack as much as they should. You should quack much more. Way more.

It is good practice to do a robust looking at resources at hand before poking other birds. This can be looking up the keywords on your-favourite-search-engine or your-favourite-hosted-llm. Also, it can be looking into your internal sources, Slack history, Confluence pages, etc. Chances are you are not facing a completely novel issue.

But when you have spent a reasonable amount of time looking, quack for help. No fear, quack loud. Repeatedly and Openly. Ask until the issue is solved and you understand it. If possible, ask in an open Slack channel, or your aviary analogue of it. And when you solve it, will all your friends' help, answer your thread too. That is important because...

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