It’s not just scientists that need to take good notes in their lab notebooks. Every day as a software engineer you are figuring out code, determining processes, making decisions, and learning detailed concepts. How many of you are documenting all this, though, writing things down as you go so that others, and even your future self, can benefit from all this hard work?
I challenge you to approach things much more like a scientist or (real) engineer does and start keeping a lab notebook and also publishing your results. It can all be virtual, of course, and probably should be to be searchable and to maximize its visibility to others and across your devices.
Taking a course? Write down your notes. Figure out how to make something work? Write down your notes. Listening in on a meeting? Write down your notes. Working on a project? Write down your notes.
This might be one of the most important skills you can learn.