When you’re new, asking good questions earns more respect than pretending you already know.

Pretending costs you twice. You do not get the answer, and you commit to a performance that gets harder to maintain, until the gap shows up in the work where it is more expensive. A specific question signals that you are paying attention and have thought about where exactly your understanding stops.

Use the new-person window while it is open, because it closes after a few weeks. Ask the thing you are embarrassed not to know, and make it specific rather than general. What should I do is much harder to answer than whether this step goes before or after the other one.