The coworker who showed you the shortcut your first week didn’t have to. Pass it to the next new hire.

Workplace knowledge often gets hoarded, so a shortcut handed over freely is a small act of generosity. Nobody is required to teach you the faster way, and some people hold on to it precisely because it makes them necessary. Whoever told you in week one chose to be slightly less special in exchange for your night going better. That is how a decent place to work gets built, one person at a time.

Write down the tricks you have picked up and hand them to the next person who starts, in their first few days, before they have suffered. Then tell whoever taught you that you passed it on.