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drafted eng executive s primer irrational exuberance irrational exuberance popular tags newsletter rss about drafted eng executive s primer published on september 4 2023 eeprimer 4 book 29 back in late april i mentioned that i was working on a new book the engineering executive s primer with o reilly i wanted to share a few notes on progress first there s a cover shown above in this post s image and also in the right rail or bottom footer if you re reading on a smaller device i m quite excited about the cover which is simple and imperfect there is nothing pure about being an executive it s mostly about balancing opposing forces to the best of your ability and i think the cover captures some of that the map underneath the cracks is an early map of san francisco s golden gate park if you want further proof try searching for stow lake whose label you can see peeking through in the crack on the right side second i ve done a lot of writing i ve been sharing early chapters with the executive tag which now has 28 posts all except one of which are from this year every one of those is an idea that i intended for the book some will be in the book exactly as is well almost exactly they all still need some editing others have been trimmed down to asides to include within other chapters and just a couple of them didn t end up fitting e g the post on creating executive linkedin profiles was top of mind for me as i was reworking mine for the job search that helped me connect with carta but there s no advice i can write about any tool that s truly evergreen advice tools change too often at this point i am nominally done writing although what i really mean is that i ve finished the first draft there s still quite a bit of editing including incorporating feedback from an amazing group of tech reviewers ty jasmine julia kevin tanya uma and virginia which i hope to finish over the course of september from there there s copy editing preparing the book for printing actually printing the book and so on but most of that won t require much direct involvement from me that means we should be on track for the digital version being complete by the end of this year and the physical release by june 2024 this is my third book and i d say that i have a pretty clear sense of how to write this sort of book so it hasn t been a particularly tortured experience pulling it together it certainly helped that i had a couple months winding down at calm before starting at carta which gave some space to focus on outlining and writing the book i m pretty sure i couldn t have written this while ramping up at a new job if so much of it hadn t already been pulled together in particular the chapters that i think are exceptionally good were all written by the time i started including writing an engineering strategy which i hope will be the enduring piece from this book perhaps that s wishful thinking as it s a topic i ve been trying to land for a long time now alright now i m off to edit prepare for a talk on engineering strategy at qcon san francisco in october and continue my work at carta hi folks i m will larson if you re looking to reach out to me here are ways i help books i wrote an elegant puzzle staff engineer the engineering executive s primer and crafting engineering strategy newsletter if you d like to get get updates subscribe for weekly emails or follow my rss feed popular building internal agents good engineering management is a fad moving from an orchestration heavy to leadership heavy management role eng org seniority mix model how to create software quality recent roadmap decisions rather than dates middle management roles are also a trap generated and suppressed demand make no assumptions revised rules of engineering leadership related the engineering executive s primer 2019 2022 reading recap starting to write infrastructure engineering why not start an indie tech book publisher should you write a technical or management book will larson 2026 tags newsletter rss about