metatechniques.md

You will need:

1. A scientific mindset

"If you don’t understand how something works, develop a hypothesis, design some experiments, run them, and record the results." (Advanced R by Hadley Wickham)

2. When asking for help, a reproducible example

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example\]

3. A hacker's mindset:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/personality.html

4. An engineer's mindset

Break down a problem, understand how things work, consider how to optimise a system

A de-facto way to test whether you've understood something:

• Can I troubleshoot the workflow?
• Can I customise the workflow?
• How does my workflow/implementation compare to an industry exemplar? For example, if I implement a chatbot, what is the difference in quality between my product and the Google Assistant?