Part I
1: Don't Be A Prick
2: Managers Are Evil
3: Stables and Volatiles
4: The Rands Test
5: How to Run a Meeting
6: The Twinge
7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster
8: Lost in Translation
9: Agenda Detection
10: Management via Worry and Crisis
11: Dissecting the Mandate
12: Information Starvation
13: Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence
14: Your Mid-Year Leadership Check-in
15: Managementese
16: You're Not Listening 17: The Hotel Giraffe
18: Fred Hates the Off-Site
19: A Different Kind of DNA
20: An Engineering Mindset
21: Tear It Down
22: Titles Are Toxic
23: Saying No
Part II
24: 1.0
25: The Process Myth
26: How to Start
27: Taking Time to Think
28: Meetings are Not For You
29: The Value of the Soak
30: Capturing Context
31: Trickle Theory
32: When the Sky Falls
33: Hacking is Important
34: WFH
35: Entropy Crushers
36: Your Culture is Rotting
37: The Metronome
Part III
38: Bored People Quit
39: Bellwethers
40: The Ninety-Day Interview
41: Managing Nerds
42: Incrementalists and Completionists
43: NADD
44: A Nerd in a Cave
45: Meeting Creatures
46: Organics and Mechanics
47: Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics
48: The Wolf
49: Free Electrons
50: The Old Guard
51: Rules for the Reorg
52: An Unexpected Connection
53: You are Going on a Quest
54: A Glimpse and a Hook
55: Nailing the Phone Screen
56: Your Resignation Checklist
57: Shields Down
58: Chaotic, Beautiful Snowflakes
59: Epilogue: Fear is a Liar
Glossary
About the Author: Michael Lopp is a veteran engineering manager who has never managed to escape the Silicon Valley. In over 20 years of software development, Michael has worked at a variety of innovative companies, including Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Borland International, Slack, and a startup that slowly faded into nothingness. In addition to his day job, Michael writes a popular technology and management weblog under the nom de plume "Rands," where he discusses his management ideas, worries about staying relevant, and wishes he had time to see more of the world. His weblog is Rands in Repose. Michael lives in northern California, never far from the ocean.
