Stripe Press

First, the title: An Elegant Puzzle wasn't the first working title for the book. (One draft title was Engineering Organization.) In @tyler_thompson’s first meeting with @Lethain, he flagged the phrase from a passage, finding it a keen encapsulation of the book. Here's the line:

“As I’ve become more experienced, my appreciation for management, and engineering management in particular, has grown, and I’ve come to view it as a series of elegant, rewarding, and important puzzles.” — @Lethain

Second, the cover: we originally explored puzzle-piece visuals and imagery of organizational charts. But we were soon set on finding a more meaningful and unique visual representation. We aspired to create a cover that would surprise and intrigue readers.