Clean Code in JavaScript

Ask stupid questions and have wild ideas

There's a tendency, especially in professional environments, to feign a great level of confidence and understanding. This can be to the detriment of knowledge transfer. If everyone is pretending to be masterful, then nobody will take the humble position that's required to learn. It's so valuable to be honest (and even stupid) in our lines of questioning. If we're new additions to a team or are confused about an area of a code base, it's important to ask the questions we truly have so that we can build the understanding necessary to be productive and reliable in our tasks. Without this understanding, we'll flail about, probably causing bugs and other problems. If everyone in a team takes a position ...