The Passionate Programmer, 2nd edition 09-10-2017, 08:28 PM
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Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 13
Part I�??Choosing Your Market 20
1. Lead or Bleed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2. Supply and Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3. Coding Don�??t Cut It Anymore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4. Be the Worst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5. Invest in Your Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6. Don�??t Listen to Your Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7. Be a Generalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
8. Be a Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
9. Don�??t Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else�??s Basket . . 54
10. Love It or Leave It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Part II�??Investing in Your Product 62
11. Learn to Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
12. Learn How Businesses Really Work . . . . . . . . . . 68
13. Find a Mentor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
14. Be a Mentor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
15. Practice, Practice, Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
16. The Way That You Do It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
17. On the Shoulders of Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
18. Automate Yourself into a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Part III�??Executing 94
19. Right Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
20. Mind Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
21. Daily Hit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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22. Remember Who You Work For . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
23. Be Where You�??re At . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
24. How Good a Job Can I Do Today? . . . . . . . . . . . 109
25. How Much Are You Worth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
26. A Pebble in a Bucket of Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
27. Learn to Love Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
28. Eight-Hour Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
29. Learn How to Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
30. Say �??No�?� . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
31. Don�??t Panic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
32. Say It, Do It, Show It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Part IV�??Marketing... Not Just for Suits 143
33. Perceptions, Perschmeptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
34. Adventure Tour Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
35. Me Rite Reel Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
36. Being Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
37. Suit Speak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
38. Change the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
39. Let Your Voice Be Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
40. Build Your Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
41. Release Your Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
42. Remarkability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
43. Making the Hang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Part V�??Maintaining Your Edge 179
44. Already Obsolete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
45. You�??ve Already Lost Your Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
46. Path with No Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
47. Make Yourself a Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
48. Watch the Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
49. That Fat Man in the Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
50. The South Indian Monkey Trap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
51. Avoid Waterfall Career Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
52. Better Than Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
53. Go Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206![[Image: Vs4P58c.png]](https://i.imgur.com/Vs4P58c.png)





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