Being Geek

The Software Developer's Career

By: Michael Lopp

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Paperback | 6 August 2010

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Is it time to become a manager? Nest and vest? Join that start-up? Tell your boss he's a liar? Or resign in disgust? As a software engineer, you'll face many important decisions such as these, and when you do, you realize there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Borland, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek, the insightful and entertaining book that may help you manage your career better. Through a series of entertaining stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the job search and finishing with the realization it might be time to look again. Plenty of books teach you how to interview for a job, or how to manage a project more successfully, but only "Being Geek" will help you handle all the baffling circumstances you experience at work, including how to: understand your boss with the chapter on 'Manager Management'; boost your career through networking with 'We Travel in Tribes'; deliver effective presentations, with 'How Not to Throw Up'; manage and actively participate in meetings, with 'What's On the Agenda'; and, realize when you should be looking for a new gig, with 'The Itch'.

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Preface	p. xi
A Career Playbook
How to Win	p. 3
A List of Three	p. 9
The Itch	p. 17
The Sanity Check	p. 25
The Nerves	p. 31
The Button	p. 37
The Business	p. 45
Deconstructing Management
The Culture Chart	p. 57
Managing Managers	p. 63
The Issue with the Doof	p. 73
The Leaper	p. 81
The Enemy	p. 87
The Impossible	p. 93
Knee Jerks	p. 99
A Deep Breath	p. 107
Gaming the System	p. 113
Managing Werewolves	p. 121
BAB	p. 127
Your People	p. 133
Wanted	p. 139
The Toxic Paradox	p. 147
The Pond	p. 155
Your Daily Toolkit
The Nerd Handbook	p. 165
The Taste of the Day	p. 173
The Trickle List	p. 181
The Crisis and the Creative	p. 189
The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools	p. 195
Up to Nothing	p. 203
How to Not Throw Up	p. 209
Out Loud	p. 215
Bits, Features, and Truth	p. 223
The Reveal	p. 233
Your Next GIG
The Screw-Me Scenario	p. 245
No Surprises	p. 251
A Deliberate Career	p. 257
The Curse of the Silicon Valley	p. 265
A Disclosure	p. 271
Mind the Gap	p. 279
The Exodus	p. 287
Bad News about Your Bright Future	p. 295
Epilogue Hurry	p. 301
Appendix The Rules of Back Alley Bridge	p. 305
Index	p. 311
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