And I’m drawn a blank on the kind of professional stuff I’d put in here.
And I’m drawn a blank on the kind of professional stuff I’d put in here.
Generalized, cases where you can choose from one of a few options/technique and this choice is an expression of your professional opinion are good. What you memorize are the attributes of the options that you tend to make the choices on. It's hard to get across (and impossible if people don't want to believe it) the difference in speed/quality/accuracy that comes from having 3 attributes of 10 options at instant recall versus a few that come to mind right away and then more if you remember to try.
- Where are the log files for $service stored?
- What do the values of $one_letter_code in this message format/log line mean?
- What do I grep for to diagnose $problem?
More generally, when I find that I have memorised how to look something up (search slack for $foo to find the instructions, type $bar in the browser address bar to bring up the wiki page with the host name I need), I try to just memorise the fact directly, to reduce friction.