I recently read "An Elegant Puzzle", an engineering management book that came out from Stripe Press. It's had great review on Twitter and the rest of the internet, but I didn't like it, and I found myself asking why that was.https://vicki.substack.com/p/do-we-need-tech-management-books …
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I talk about a couple reasons why I didn't like it in the newsletter, and it turned out that those reasons were bigger than the book itself:
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1. Management books are mostly not for managers 2. Books converted directly from blog posts don't work very well 3. We can't talk about specific incidents or examples from work in books, which makes us all worse off.
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@generativist for his great tweet:https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1138167575928422400 …Vicki Boykis added,
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I’ve been getting a barrage of followers for the fish tube tweet today, but now I’m suddenly experiencing an overtaking wave of data science ones. That’s a pretty compelling thinkfluencer metric!
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