Being Geek. The Software Developer's Career Handbook

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• Being Geek
• Praise for Being Geek
• Dedication
• Preface
  • How to Contact Us
  • Safari Books Online
  • Acknowledgments
• I. A CAREER PLAYBOOK
  • 1. How to Win
    • A System Thinker
    • People Are Messy
    • A System of Improvisation
    • A Career Blueprint
    • A Collection of Moments
  • 2. A List of Three
    • Technical Direction
    • Growth
    • Delivery
    • Simplifying the Infinite
  • 3. The Itch
    • Are You Answering the Phone?
      • The Pissed Itch
      • Early Warning Signs of Doom
        • Engagement
        • Wanderlust
      • The Contradiction List
        • Who are you leaving behind?
          • The reality is:
        • Are you done?
          • The reality is:
        • What itch are you trying to scratch?
          • The reality is:
    • Bright and Shiny
  • 4. The Sanity Check
    • Stalk Your Future Job
    • Initial Tuning
      • Can We Communicate?
      • One More Softball
      • No More Softballs
      • Your Turn
    • The Close
      • Long, Awkward Pauses
      • Adversarial Interactions
      • Howd It Feel?
      • Specific Next Steps
  • 5. The Nerves
    • Question Types
    • The Answer Process
    • The Confidence of Knowing a Thing
  • 6. The Button
    • Creatures and Structure
    • Interview Creatures
      • Pissed Off Pete
      • Chatty Patty
      • The Poet
      • Gotcha Greg
      • Slick Steve
      • Silent Bob
      • The CEO
    • A Fresh Perspective
  • 7. The Business
    • You Are the Business
    • Pre-Game
      • How Am I Doing?
    • The Swag
      • Base Salary
      • Title
      • Sign-on Bonus
      • Stock
    • Negotiating Roles
      • Offer Compromise
        • Lower base salary
        • But its OK, heres a bonus
        • Even better, heres a pile of stock
        • And this is our final offer
    • Meh
• II. DECONSTRUCTING MANAGEMENT
  • 8. The Culture Chart
    • Ninety Days
    • Bridge
    • Detecting Culture
    • Culture Definers
    • Game Over
  • 9. Managing Managers
    • A Management Assessment
      • Is There a 1:1?
      • Is a Staff Meeting a Casual or Structured Affair?
      • Are There Status Reports?
      • What Meetings Does He Schedule?
      • How Often Is His Hand in the Cookie Jar?
    • The Essential Elements
    • The Loop
  • 10. The Issue with the Doof
    • On Experience
    • Up
    • Partial Information
    • Beware the Doof
    • Everything
  • 11. The Leaper
    • On Excuses
    • On Delivery
    • Say Something Real
  • 12. The Enemy
    • Management Transformations
      • The Interrogator
      • The Prioritizer
      • The Randomizer
      • The Illuminator
      • The Enemy
    • The M Word
  • 13. The Impossible
    • A Hint of an Insane Plan
    • Skin in the Game
    • The Importance of Respect
    • What He Really Wants
  • 14. Knee Jerks
    • One Eighth of a Second
    • The Jerks
      • Dr. No
      • Raging Bull
      • Still Water
      • Distiller
      • The Handler
      • My Bad
      • Were Doomed
      • I Quit
    • Stages of Jerk
  • 15. A Deep Breath
    • Sigh
      • Three Meetings
        • 1:1s with my staff
        • Staff
        • Look What We Built meeting
      • Invest in the Boring
  • 16. Gaming the System
    • An Entertaining System
      • Discovery: From Confusion to Control
      • Optimization, Repetition, and Win: A Paradox and a Warning
      • Achievement: Who Cares if You Win by Yourself?
      • The Rules of the Game
        • The rules need to be clear.
        • The rules must be inviolable.
        • The playing of the game must be inclusive, visible, and broadcasted.
        • Use money as a reward only as a last resort.
        • Its not a game.
    • The Whiteboard Game
  • 17. Managing Werewolves
    • A Dangerous Scenario
    • People Lie, Some Are Evil, Others Just Want to Screw You
    • This Isnt Role Playing; This Is Life or Death
    • We Cant Let the Werewolves Win
  • 18. BAB
    • On the Topic of Trust
      • BAB
        • In BAB, you talk shit.
        • In BAB, you learn things unintentionally.
        • In BAB, youre having work experiences without the work.
    • The Second Staff Meeting
  • 19. Your People
    • Share What You Build
    • You Tell Stories
  • 20. Wanted
    • The Requisition Situation
      • Spend an Hour a Day on Each Req You Have
      • I Found Them! Im Done!
    • Deliberate Want
    • Hire for Your Career
  • 21. The Toxic Paradox
    • Big Fat Toxic Assumptions
    • Go Team!
    • A Toxic Paradox
    • Everyone Is an Adjustment
  • 22. The Pond
    • The Unspoken Royal We
    • Do You Mean It?
      • The Personality
        • Are they eloquent in email?
        • Are they self-directed?
        • How detail-oriented are they?
        • How well do they know the Pond?
        • Do they need the Pond?
        • Are they reliable?
      • The Right Job
      • The Culture
      • Friction Detection
    • Another Pond
• III. YOUR DAILY TOOLKIT
  • 23. The Nerd Handbook
    • Understanding Your Nerd
      • Understand Your Nerds Relation to the Computer
      • Your Nerd Has Control Issues
      • Your Nerd Has Built Himself a Cave
      • Your Nerd Loves Toys and Puzzles
      • Nerds Are Fucking Funny
      • Your Nerd Has an Amazing Appetite for Information
      • Your Nerd Has Built an Annoyingly Efficient Relevancy Engine in His Head
      • Your Nerd Might Come Off as Not Liking People
    • Advanced Nerd Tweakage
      • Map the Things Hes Bad at to the Things He Loves
      • Make It a Project
      • People Are the Most Interesting Content out There
    • The Next High
  • 24. The Taste of the Day
    • The New Gig
    • The Taste of the Day
      • The Morning Scrub
      • Practice Productivity Minimalism
      • The Evening
  • 25. The Trickle List
    • Trickle Creation
    • The Trickle Process
    • Structured Improvisation
  • 26. The Crisis and the Creative
    • A Spectrum for Everything
      • The Crisis
      • The Creative
    • A Personal Model
  • 27. The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools
    • The Foamy Rules
      • My Tools Appear Deceptively Simple
      • My Tools Do Not Care Where My Work Is
      • My Tools Are Designed to Remove Repetitive Motion
      • My Tools Do Only What Ive Told Them to Do
      • My Tools Are My Tools
    • An Evolving Foaminess
  • 28. Up to Nothing
    • An Essential Exercise in Inactivity
    • Up to Nothing
    • Dont Look for It
  • 29. How to Not Throw Up
    • Not Throwing Up Is a Two-Phase Process
      • Phase 1: Practice Endlessly
      • Phase 2: Throw-up Avoidance
        • Improvise
    • Fret
  • 30. Out Loud
    • Presentation or Speech?
    • The Unforgivable Mistake
    • The Disaster
    • Reduction
    • Presentation Punctuation
    • Something for Their Pocket
  • 31. Bits, Features, and Truth
    • That Damned Triangle
      • Bits, Features, and Truth
        • Bits
        • Features
        • Truth
      • Circle of Comfort
      • Circle Analysis
        • Bits and Features are the same.
        • Truth is the same as Features.
    • Let the Negotiation Begin; Its About the Debate
  • 32. The Reveal
    • Three Phases
    • Three Alphas
      • Alpha Nothing: Im saying absolutely nothing.
      • Alpha Game: Im game, but you drive.
      • Alpha Drive: Ill drive.
    • The Holy Shit Event Horizon
• IV. YOUR NEXT GIG
  • 33. The Screw-Me Scenario
    • You Might Be Lying
    • A Rubber Stamp Affair
    • No Guilt, No Doubts, No Fear
    • Game On
    • The Unforgivable Spin
    • A Screw-Me Detection Policy
  • 34. No Surprises
    • Show Me the Money
      • Measures Versus Content
      • A Review Is a Conversation
      • Surprise!
    • The Permanence of the Written
  • 35. A Deliberate Career
    • Three Choices
      • Question #1: Start-up or Established?
        • Start-up
        • Established
      • Question #2: Industry and Brand
      • Question #3: Management or Development?
        • Why would anyone want to be a manager?
    • A Complete Opportunity Move
  • 36. The Curse of the Silicon Valley
    • Apprenticeship
    • On Language
      • Everyone Hates Engineering
        • No one knows what we actually do to build the software, so they assume its easy
        • We take our work personally and believe no else does
        • Our relationship is with the bits
    • The Curse
    • Geeks Gone Mainstream
  • 37. A Disclosure
    • Management Is a Total Career Restart
    • You Go to a Lot of Meetings
    • You Are a Communication Hub
    • Abstraction and Filtering
    • You Will Be a Multilingual Translator
    • Drama Everywhere
    • Context Switcher
    • Say No
    • Say Yes
    • Trust So You Can Scale
  • 38. Mind the Gap
    • The Gaps
      • Knowledge and Ability: Alpha Knowledge
      • Power and Influence: Maestro
      • Network and Communication: The Insider
    • A Matter of Perspective
  • 39. The Exodus
    • This Sucks
      • Two Threads
        • Tactical
        • Strategic
      • The First Wave
        • Where does this exodus begin?
        • Why are they leaving?
        • Why are they letting them go?
      • The Second Wave
        • Approach #1: Wait it out
        • Approach #2: Stem the tide
      • The Third Wave
    • Which Wave?
  • 40. Bad News About Your Bright Future
    • Whats Next
    • Biased by the Now
    • An Uncomfortable Ending
  • A. Hurry
    • Youre in a Hurry
  • B. The Rules of Back Alley Bridge
    • Preparing for Back Alley Bridge
    • Rules of Play
• Index
• About the Author
• Colophon
• Copyright

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