2 min lesson
Build an honest gap map
Imagine this comes up at work: "You have deep AWS networking and EKS experience but have never operated a service mesh in production. How should you handle that gap in the loop?" Start with the practical move.
Step 1 of 3
Build an honest gap mapdo this before any other prep
Sort every pillar into one of three buckets. The bucket decides how you spend prep time and how you talk about each area in the loop.
Three buckets
- Lived
- You've run it in production and have a war story. Lead with these; this is your deep-dive material.
- Adjacent
- You've touched it or own a neighboring system. Bridge from what you know; be honest about the edge of your experience.
- Gap
- You'd be studying it. Study the fundamentals now and, in the loop, reason from first principles rather than bluffing depth.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
diagram: compare
Same gap, two responses - in a truth-seeking loop the gap isn't the failure, the bluff is.