Get Up to Speed Unbelievably Fast: A Practical Guide to Rapid Onboarding

A Former Amazon Principal Engineer's Proven System to Master Core Concepts and Make an Immediate Impact.

You’re eager to make an immediate impact.

You’ve just started a new role or a challenging project, ready to dive in and prove your worth.

But instead of hitting the ground running, a lack of understanding is holding you back. Everyone around you is speaking fluently in what might as well be a different language. While you’re nodding along, you secretly grasp maybe five percent of what is being said. You feel like you should be understanding closer to eighty percent by now.

You realize you now have two full time jobs. There is the work you were brought in to do, and there is the task of getting up to speed. Both feel like they are falling further behind with every passing moment of confusion. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. I have been there.

After nearly two decades at Amazon, operating as a Principal Engineer, often parachuting into complex, high stakes projects, I’ve developed a system to cut through this chaos. In this article, I’ll share with you that exact framework t…