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What 2 Years Spent Self-Publishing a 77,000-Word Book Taught Me about Shipping Products

Two years ago, when I quit my job at Quora to write my first book full-time, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. I had a romanticized notion that I’d travel around the world for a year, sipping lattes at cafes and happily typing out chapters, and then come back with a book that readers loved and that made a meaningful impact on their lives. Reality followed a... (more)

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— Jack Heart, Engineering Manager at Asana

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“A comprehensive tour of our industry's collective wisdom written with clarity.”

— Jack Heart, Engineering Manager at Asana

“Edmond managed to distill his decade of engineering experience into crystal-clear best practices.”

— Daniel Peng, Senior Staff Engineer at Google

“I wish I had this manual to give my engineers when I was a VP of Engineering at Twitter. This summarizes and presents everything I used to tell my team.”

— Raffi Krikorian, Engineering Director at Uber

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