The idea of mentor/mentee and master/apprentice relationships is way overdue in the software industry. It's good to see an author try to get out what's involved in a good relationship.

I didn't find a lot of new material here and it seemed rambling, but since I'm in the business I'm not much of an impartial judge!

In the future, I'd rather see the top 3 key traits of a mentor instead of the dozen or more items we got. Also why these traits were chosen. It seems one of the qualifications for being a mentor is being able to give lots of options and bullet points. I think the harder part is filtering it out and making it easy for noobs. Just my opinion, though. Thanks for the article!