No PayPal option?
no but you can email me swyx@hey.com and I'll send you Paypal instructions and add you manually! sorry Podia doesnt provide paypal option :(
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This looks like a great resource, swyx. I'm considering buying but would strongly prefer to read a physical book. Do you plan to publish a print version?
thanks! I have no immediate plans but am open to the idea - if only for the fact that itd be freaking cool to give out my own book - any idea what the best way to do a small print run of books would be? theres the added complication that i'm stuck here in Singapore due to coronavirus, whereas my target audience is all in the US. so i probably shouldnt do shipping myself.
Not something I'm familiar with, sorry. I've heard that blogintobook.com is a relatively cheap option.
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#24This is really cool. I will purchase this next month when I have a bit more free money.
i'll prob end the launch discount by then! whats your situation, i can work it out with you, email me swyx@hey dot com
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#26I highly recommend the channel Tech Lead, a youtuber who covers some of the mundane aspects of programming career.
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#27I highly recommend this book and Swyx's other work. He's thorough while also distilling down to the most important bits.
Great book for people that are just starting their coding career but also for those with a good bit of experience. If you're feeling 'stuck', this is a great guide to understand how to advance your career.
'Learn in public' is probably the #1 piece of advice I'd give to anyone in tech. It helps your writing, it builds your network, and it grinds down your ego (because people will certainly let you know when you're wrong). Swyx has been a huge proponent of this, and this whole book is a great kick in the pants to get started.
I'd be shocked if this book doesn't make you >>>10x the amount you spend on it (even counting a healthy hourly rate for reading it).
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#28This book looks interesting. I'd like some advice on whether it will be useful for me.
I've been a professional dev for over ten years and I have a CompSci degree from a respected university. I'm getting paid principal engineering salary for a moderate sized city in the U.S. and I work remotely from Canada in a fairly cheap cost-of-living city at a small company (far from Silicon Valley salary, but pretty damn high for here).
Do you think this book will be useful to me? I want to maintain my career as a developer and grow in skill and salary. I have started blogging about a year ago and I do infrequently but I think my posts are decent. I also am taking the time to learn some stuff like ML and am constantly trying to improve my skills with stuff like PostgreSQL and Go.
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Poor choice of words on my part. Should have said something like "easily-grasped value prop". You want a very short elevator pitch for what you do, that makes it clear what value you provide. I think of Corey Quinn, whose pitch is "I fix your AWS bill." Short, easily-grasped, specific.
this exactly. but Corey can also pitch himself in anywhere from 30seconds to 30 minutes. Marketing Yourself is about adjusting your message to your audience/situation, and it can and should be practiced because you do not leave things like this up to chance. (the public draft: https://www.swyx.io/writing/marketing-yourself/ ) this is obliquely referenced in the book, but i believe the most effective pitch is if you c…
Thanks. It's nice when your work is recognized!
I've argued that in some ways a more effective positioning statement would have been "I fix the horrifying AWS bill for SaaS companies in the Pacific Northwest" or whatnot; you want your prospective clients to see themselves in what you do.
Fortunately, "the AWS bill" is painful enough of a problem without too many other viable alternatives that this was "enough."
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#30Read a version of this book pre-release and loved it! Distills much of the best advice you can get if you hang out for a few years on HN into an easily shareable package. Would recommend as a graduation gift or career starter for the new tech person in your life. But also super valuable for folks who have been in the industry as well. The chapter on "Marketing Yourself" contains some reminders that I found really hel…
what is meant by “easily-grasped” in this case, and why is being this type of person good? I.e. why would it be good to have a skill that anyone can easily grasp? (I’m sure it’s mentioned in the book, but I couldn’t help but ask anyway :])
They mean
easily-grasped (value prop)
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(easily-grasped value) prop