From the course: Learning Troubleshooting for Web Developers

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Leverage your network

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Leverage your network

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- [Instructor] We tend to gravitate toward people with similar interests, so odds are high you follow some people who might know something about the problem you're having. Or maybe they follow you. Either way. Don't overlook your personal network when it comes to finding answers to questions. While there's definitely something to be said for trying to figure something out on your own, don't burn a bunch of hours on a problem when you have access to someone who can point you in the right direction. Maybe that's someone you know online via social media, or maybe it's someone you know in the real world from a previous job or meetup. It never hurts to ping your network. For example, here's a tweet of mine from awhile back. I threw this question out to my Twitter followers and was able to get some help for this CSS question. Note, I have done this other times and not gotten an answer, so it's not a surefire way to get help. But since I hang out on Twitter a lot anyways, it certainly didn't…

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