Pretty Good Practices, Tips, and General Advice

Over the last twenty years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a diverse range of interns and young professionals. Before that I was a young professional and learned through a combination of mistakes, the generosity of others, and reading like a fiend. I’m trying to catalog those things.

Email

1. How to email inside your organization or with your team.
2. How to email a stranger

How To Get Help

1. Asking Questions.

Grab Bag

A list of suggestions that doesn’t fit anywhere else.

Change Log and Roadmap

Change Log

2022-12-29: Initiated project, began email, grab bag sections. 2022-01-29: Added how to ask for help section, added more email tips.

Roadmap

• Preparing for meetings
• Working on a document with other humans
• Working on a document with AI
• Creating a presentation
• Delivering a project

About This Project

This project welcomes contributions. It is licensed to use.

This project has been created by Marnie Webb to: share what I’ve learned from working with interns and young professionals over the last 20 years; share the great advice I’ve received and the feedback I’ve gotten; and, save my daughter from having to listen to regular how to grow up lectures.

Inspiration

1. Phil Agre’s excellent advice for graduate students.
2. All of the excellent interns I’ve worked with who are open and curious and ask for help.
3. My daughter’s high school internship class.