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by jstanier 7y ago
Thank you, I'm pleased you think that. My PhD was in compilers anyway. I have no formal management training. :-)
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by jstanier 7y ago
Thank you! I hope you like it.
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by jstanier 7y ago
@jstanier on Twitter, or my email is in my profile.
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by jstanier 7y ago
Hey! I think you'll have to wait until the thing is done and then you can buy it from Amazon and other bookstores. Couple of months, I guess. The publisher is in charge of choosing the excerpts, but I'll feed that back to them.
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by jstanier 7y ago
Hey - icon set? What do you mean by icon set? :-)
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by jstanier 7y ago
I understand. Yeah, we're a VC-backed company but it didn't feel like the journey was a movie script at any point.
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by jstanier 7y ago
Thank you! The target audience for the newsletter was decided as "the busy exec". Not too much text, lots of gifs of functionality that we've built, etc. There's some separate newsletters we do as well - there's a f
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by jstanier 7y ago
The book assumes someone is interested in it or just started. I didn't cover landing the job, but that's a really interesting point. Personally, I got promoted from within at the beginning of my management journey. Have you been a
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by jstanier 7y ago
@jstanier on Twitter if that works for you.
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by jstanier 7y ago
We don't talk about that blog.
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by jstanier 7y ago
I didn't even know that was a thing. :-) Ace!
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by jstanier 7y ago
You should! I think there's a lot of stigma around it. It's definitely not a step "down".
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by jstanier 7y ago
Sure, that's good feedback and makes a lot of sense. I can edit that blurb.
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by jstanier 7y ago
That's kind of you to say that! Thank you. Can I email you to get some more of your feedback? What's the best way to contact you?
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by jstanier 7y ago
I don't know if there's a way to subscribe for updates with the publisher, but if you use Twitter I'm on there as @jstanier and I give updates on how it's going. If you're not on Twitter then I can drop you an email
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by jstanier 7y ago
Good question! I don't know. I can ask my editor. When the print copy is out it will be available from bookshops and Amazon and so on, so maybe that's the short-term answer.
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by jstanier 7y ago
That's a good question. I'm English and I work for a UK company. I had some reviewers at the 50% stage who were from European companies and they didn't say anything specific about this, but I'd be interested to learn mor
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by jstanier 7y ago
I totally agree on your final sentence there. There's a number of things in that chapter you mention, and there's also material on managing upwards earlier on in the book. As an example of something I personally struggle with: wha
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by jstanier 7y ago
This is fascinating, thanks! Turn The Ship Around is on my reading list.
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by jstanier 7y ago
Oh no, these people know the secret!
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by jstanier 7y ago
I said something similar in another comment, but one of the things I say in the introduction is that I've written the book to help people understand what the management track is really about. So if someone reads the book and decides th
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by jstanier 7y ago
I'm generally aligned with this comment. I really enjoy helping others succeed. I also have a lot of input into the product strategy, and that is very rewarding for me also.
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by jstanier 7y ago
That's a very good question. In the introduction I've said that I've written the book as a way of letting people understand what the role is really like so they can make that decision. However, I think that I could use a side
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by jstanier 7y ago
You just read it backwards, right? :-) That's a good point though, and I do mention it in the book. I talk about how when promoting people it's good to define a 30-60-90 day plan (although there are many similar frameworks) and ba
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by jstanier 7y ago
Thank you! I haven't gone into detail about these in the book. This is very much the standard Engineering Manager route that people would find in most places in industry right now. However - if you don't mind - I would love to use
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Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
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NoDeployFriday: Helpful or Harmful?(theengineeringmanager.com)
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by jstanier 7y ago
A fair point! Fixed.
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by jstanier 7y ago
I hate self-promotion, but I write on http://theengineeringmanager.com/ which might also have some interesting articles for you. There's a Management 101 section which I wrote for people becoming a team lead for the fi
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Coding Bootcamps: A Glimpse at the Future of Education?(theengineeringmanager.com)
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