Quick Tip on Onboarding Yourself to a New Team

Quick tip:

When onboarding yourself to a new project or team, the best way to show your grasp of the subject matter is by asking deep and thoughtful questions, rather than telling the people around you what you know or postulating about how things 'should be' based on your experience.

Intelligent questions by definition require a baseline understanding of the context of a situation... people know this inherently and will begin to trust that if you're asking questions at the level of X, Y, and Z, that you're already ahead of the game.