WOW. Six months after release, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook has sold more than 25,000 copies. This is far beyond what I hoped for. The audiobook is now in the works, as well as translation into 7 languages. Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy of the book (or the e-book!) 🙌

Whenever I hear about some FAANG layoffs, I keep coming back to Gergely Orosz's discussion of "peacetime vs. wartime" companies. I'd posit that many big tech companies that have been in peacetime mode **for most of our entire careers** are now in wartime mode.

I'm only through the first section of The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz and WOW I have already learned so much! We are doing a book club for it at work and I am SO excited to talk about this book 🙌

I always find specific examples make it easier to illustrate a point. This was why when talking about varied career paths in The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, I highlighted people who had this kind of variety (like Mark Tsimelzon has!)

The Software Engineer's Guidebook is out in Korean translation! For those in Korea: get it from the publisher, Hanbit Media (bit.ly/4h9gxxj), or from online bookstores Kyobo (bit.ly/48gqkOb), YES24 (bit.ly/40g1XOz) or Aladin (bit.ly/3NyZx6b)

It's official: the audiobook version of The Software Engineer's Guidebook will be out early December. If you'd like to get notified when it's out: add your email here (or just keep an eye out for an announcement from this account!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A reason engineers are often drawn to working on platform teams. Especially if on product teams engineers feel like they don't have much input in influencing the team direction / tactics. From The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Chapter 5: (Thriving in Different Environments)

The German translation of The Software Engineer’s Guidebook is out this week: Kindle tomorrow (26 Nov) and print on Thursday (28 Nov). Holding a print copy that arrived: Proud to say this makes me an O'Reilly published author - five years after pitching this exact book to O'Reilly!

An important difference between software engineering and many other engineering disciplines (eg civil engineering): physical laws are a lot less limiting for software engineering, thanks to the intangible nature of software From The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, Chapter 15

After a year of publishing, The Software Engineer's Guidebook has passed 33,000 copies sold (not counting translations recently out in German and Korean) Thank you to everyone who read it.

The Software Engineer's Guidebook: audiobook is now available on Audible. Search for "The Software Engineer's Guidebook"

Yes - The Software Engineer’s Guidebook as an audiobook available on all platforms, including Audible and a DRM-free purchase as well!

Pinch me: the Mongolian translation of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (The Software Engineer’s Guidebook) is ready. The book launch will be on Monday, in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. I'll be there!

I learned how The Software Engineer’s Guidebook (The Software Engineer’s Guidebook) ended up being translated to Mongolian: This engineer (Suiribaatar) bought the English version, liked it, and suggested to his company (Nasha Tech) to translate it. The company did it. You can just do things.