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The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

by Gergely Orosz (Goodreads Author)

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Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

by Drew Neil

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The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

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Effective Testing with RSpec 3: Build Ruby Apps with Confidence by Myron Marston

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If your spec is failing because of a bug in a dependency, mark it with pending and the ticket ID from their bug tracker; for example, pending ’waiting for a fix for Hitchhiker’s Guide bug #42’. When you later update to a version containing ...more

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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“One of Elisabeth Hendrickson’s ideas that we like the most is that people who ask for control often really want visibility.”
― Gojko Adzic, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories

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“Early in his visit he asked a senior monk, who had been living in a similar cabin for over fifteen years, if he ever got tired of walking the trail connecting the residences to the main building. “I’m only just starting to learn it,” the monk replied mindfully.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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