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Being Geek
The Software Developer’s
Career Handbook
Michael Lopp
Beijing  ·  Cambridge  ·  Farnham  ·  Köln  ·  Sebastopol  ·  Taipei  ·  Tokyo
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Being Geek
by Michael Lopp
Copyright © 2010 Michael Lopp. All rights reserved.
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To Spencer and Claire.
My daily reminders of the value of caring
about someone deeply.
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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
SECTION 1: A CAREER PLAYBOOK
Chapter 1
How to Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2
A List of Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3
The Itch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 4
The Sanity Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 5
The Nerves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 6
The Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 7
The Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Contents
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SECTION 2: DECONSTRUCTING MANAGEMENT
Chapter 8
The Culture Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 9
Managing Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 10
The Issue with the Doof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 11
The Leaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 12
The Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 13
The Impossible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 14
Knee Jerks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chapter 15
A Deep Breath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Chapter 16
Gaming the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 17
Managing Werewolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter 18
BAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 19
Your People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 20
Wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Chapter 21
The Toxic Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Chapter 22
The Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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SECTION 3: YOUR DAILY TOOLKIT
Chapter 23
The Nerd Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Chapter 24
The Taste of the Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Chapter 25
The Trickle List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Chapter 26
The Crisis and the Creative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Chapter 27
The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Chapter 28
Up to Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 29
How to Not Throw Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Chapter 30
Out Loud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Chapter 31
Bits, Features, and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 32
The Reveal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
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SECTION 4: YOUR NEXT GIG
Chapter 33
The Screw-Me Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Chapter 34
No Surprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Chapter 35
A Deliberate Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Chapter 36
The Curse of the Silicon Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Chapter 37
A Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Chapter 38
Mind the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Chapter 39
The Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Chapter 40
Bad News About Your Bright Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Epilogue
Hurry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Appendix
The Rules of Back Alley Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
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Preface
I’m a geek, and I might be a nerd, but I’m not a dork.
I’ve been at these definitions long enough to see them transformed
from cruel words of judgment to badges of honor and labels of
praise, but even with dramatically better PR and social standing,
we’re still a demographic saddled with debilitating social skills,
strange control issues, and an insatiable appetite for information.
…and we don’t even have a good definition for the labels we’ve
given ourselves.
Some of the content for this book was first seen in the Rands in
Repose weblog, and many years ago I made a snap decision about
whether to embrace the word nerd or geek to describe my demo-
graphic. I was writing a lightweight article regarding attention de-
ficiency disorder and I needed an acronym, because nothing dresses
up an idea like a clever acronym.
The choices were Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder (N.A.D.D.)
or Geek Attention Deficiency Disorder (G.A.D.D.). While neither
rolls of the tongue, N.A.D.D. struck me as slightly less terrible. This
brief decision had lasting impact because, moving forward, I exclu-
sively used nerd in my articles.
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It is a defining characteristic of the nerd or geek to seek definition.
This makes my off-the-cuff nerd naming choice an ongoing source
of annoyance for me. What is the actual definition of the nerd? And
the geek? And what about those dorks?
This annoyance became a full-blown inconvenience as I worked
with my editor on this book that is now in your hands. As titles
we debated, she came up with the elegant and precise Being Geek.
Right. Right. Dammit. That’s perfect. Problem is, I’ve never written
about geeks. I’m a nerd. Or am I?
The origins of the word don’t help. Geek originally described a cir-
cus performer who bit the heads off live animals. Nerd has a more
honorable origin in its first documented appearance in Dr. Seuss’s
1950 book If I Ran the Zoo, where the narrator claims he would
collect “A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too.”
Since then, the words have blended. There are clever Venn diagrams
that describe the respective traits of nerds versus geeks. Some sug-
gest the geeks are more obsessive than the nerds. Others call out the
social ineptitude of the nerds, but for every definition you find,
another can be found to contradict the previous definition.
So, it’s a toss up.
The good news is the lack of a clear delineation between nerd and
geek doesn’t prevent us from tackling dork.
Dork is derogatory, there’s no doubt about it, but it does have a
place amongst the geek and nerd definition. The term geek can be
added to any number of fields, many of which have little to do with
technology. Movie geek, music geek—this describes a deep appre-
ciation of a thing. My belief is that the term dork is used by geeks to
position their geekery above another’s geek field. For example, I’m
a computer geek, but those movie geeks are dorks.
Make sense?
The point being, depending on where you’re standing, we’re all
dorks.
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