How do you know about this book

One day I was reading a blog recommendation and wanted to buy two books instead of a bunch of technical books. A simple look, feel pretty good, decisive start!

How about this book

The writer is American, a programmer. I can relate to most of it. Overall a good book, worth a programmer’s read.

What’s the book about

What skills are important to a programmer besides technical skills? Things like self-marketing, finance, fitness, workplace ethics, productivity. Just look at the catalog and you’ll know what skills you need to develop.

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Let’s talk about some of the ideas the book conveys

Working for a boss is better than working for yourself

The job belongs to the company, the career belongs to you. Dry for a long time, you are to walk the road of the company again, leave the company, fart is not. So don’t just focus on the job each day. Not doing anything for myself. Always working for the company. Every programmer has to have a plan, not necessarily a programmer, you need to think about how to realize their value

Set a goal, break it down into achievable goals, and motivate yourself when you’re done

I’ve known this since I was a child. Gourd babies can’t be seen in vain. How can a mountain be destroyed by cutting them down one by one? Motivation varies from person to person. I think the sense of achievement after completing small tasks can satisfy me

Give respect, listen, put yourself in others’ shoes, control your emotions

No one is spoiling you. Everyone is busy. When you don’t know what to do, silence is also a good choice

Away from cancer

Sometimes you will find that some people are just difficult to get along with, some people just like to seize the opportunity to disgust others, always pessimistic about life. Then I suggest you stay away from them. Don’t try to change them or fit in with them. People are affected by their environment. But if you have to face it sometimes, you can either roll with the punches or move to another department or change your job. Don’t complain! Really is a hundred harm no benefit, you will be worse than Xianglin Sister-in-law.

Circles are different, do not have to be strong

Some people you will find excellent, some people are very good personality, but really can not get together, that also do not force, do not deliberately to cater to them.

Don’t do meaningless things

The author’s idea of not watching TV (2012) translates to our age of not playing with mobile phones. This may sound crazy, but maybe it’s not douyin, Or Weibo, or other time-killing apps. There is no good or bad tool, but different people will play different uses. Many people suggest not to brush Douyin, quick hand, but I don’t think it is necessary to quit, you will not quit. I don’t play Douyin, Weibo. I just don’t think there’s much value in giving me, because I’ve used both. I’m looking at station B, Zhihu. They just put you in touch with something valuable, relatively speaking. Even if you’re not studying, watching life lessons, documentaries, money management, etc. is better than laughing stupidly all day.

It’s important to push in the interview

According to the author, internal promotion is much easier than social recruitment, and some positions will be better. Oneself experienced school recruit only, do not have vital experience of also don’t say nonsense.

Specialization is important, not a little bit. First professional, in the expansion of branches

I think many people will be confused and do not know how to go and plan in the future. I really do not want to be a programmer all my life, nor do I want to be limited to a technology or a language, but I am afraid that I will be a little and not good at it. The author’s words enlightened me, and I agreed.

As a beginner, specialize your field. And then we branch out. “But it’s important to note that the more specialized you are, the fewer potential opportunities there are, but the more likely you are to get them.” The author means don’t be afraid to be professional. There are so many headhunters now, and you are a piece of material. It’s like a scene from A World Without Thieves

Don’t fight with me. You fight with me

Some people will always be around others, always emotional, such as their own very hard to write an article was questioned vilified, their own a dry article, said to take goods article. Oneself do a thing can not be understood by others, but also be laughed at and so on. If you’re always the first person to talk to, explain that you’re right. Then this step you have gone wrong, there is a saying that do not do wrong, afraid of the devil. The eyes of the masses are clear, you do not need to stand out. And they’re just the troublemakers, so you’re just being serious. After winning or losing important, their time is also wasted, the mood is also destroyed, at that time you really ate a bowl of cold powder is important. So to the Buddha, they bar is their right, serious you will lose

Let your boss or direct line know what you’re doing

One of the biggest changes in the workplace is when you’re a student you get assignments and your teachers check your work regularly. But not in the workplace. If you stay anonymous, it’s hard for the boss to know what you did, so that over the years, you’ll always be a good kid and never grow up. Right

When it comes to Mard, you have to draw the line

Being a programmer is both technical and ethical. The author’s example is too abstract. In general, stick to the straight and narrow!

A person should have boundaries, and so should a programmer. The technology is not guilty, the code should be used in the appropriate place, in the biggest sense, should not harm the national interest, harm the society, harm the company. At the very least, you can’t influence others. For example, if you steal the computer camera permission of a female colleague, xx at night.

Results oriented, the process is for you to see

Most of the time the result is important, do not talk about what effort, it can only prove that you can not, for example, a demand, others three days, you a week, obviously very hard ah, why not. This is the time to reflect on how you can improve your productivity. There is no hard work but merit in the workplace. Of course, sometimes the process is still very important, not one size fits all. Look at me, I have 30 minutes. You only have 3 minutes.

Not limited to one technology, not that technology doesn’t matter

The author says don’t think of yourself as a “C engineer” or a “Java engineer.” It’s too limiting.

Of course I’ve heard of Java engineers, but not Java architects. No single language is the strongest, except PHP [doge] of course. I should focus on one field. I am currently engaged in enterprise-level application development, which involves a wide range of technologies, not just Java. Technology always serves the business. Where value comes from is the business. Making yourself an expert in your field and having trouble finding a job? It doesn’t exist.

It doesn’t matter how awesome you are, it matters how awesome you are

This is what the author says about self-marketing, you need to have influence in the industry, some people say that gold will always shine, you see other people’s Zhuge Liang, hidden in the mountains and old forests is not also discovered. That’s when you know one and not the other. Zhuge Liang didn’t sell himself? You’d be dead wrong. Zhuge Liang is actually a very hype guy. Say human relation first: get acquainted with Xu Shu, phoenix young wait for the ox person to worship water mirror to be a teacher together, married extremely ugly Huang Yueying, although ugly but versatile, also learn a lot of things from the wife body, for instance wooden ox liuma. Her father was also a local celebrity, a big man in the circle, who had a lot of help in his career. His elder brother Zhuge Jin worked as an official under Sun Quan. Zhuge is also very talented, since than Guan Zhong Yue Yi. But others still a “time people do not allow.” Others thought they were bragging, but only their good friends Cui Zhouping and Xu Shu knew they were talented. This which can go, so zhuge good budget travel, know the world, know the people of the world, so that they become big V, waiting for the arrival of Bile. So really good people still need to market themselves to get into big factories. Don’t you think you need that?

No matter where you are in your career, be able to market yourself

Whether you are just entering the workforce or several years old, you need to market yourself. Some people say, I’m just a bad cook, I have nothing to show others, and I don’t know how to market myself. Scared of what? What did I say? I’ve only been in the workforce for less than a year. Github doesn’t have a single star, doesn’t even see double-digit likes, doesn’t get read, doesn’t get commented on. I will write to myself, I think the level of each article to write can also, each article is also in the heart to write. Good wine fears no lane. After all, there will be quantitative changes cause qualitative changes one day!

Write more articles, work on open source projects, and share a nickname

How is this marketed? Above is my summary of suitable for us, open source project level is not enough, you can wait for the opportunity. Mainly is to write more articles, to others understand for the purpose. It’s best to share a nickname. Li Bai also only a word too white, identification is very important. Lu Xun is Zhou Shuren, who else?

Setting up a blog takes time and effort, so focus on writing articles

I also built my own blog, time-consuming and laborious, back-end, front-end, editor, and had to rent a server to write, so that your article exposure is very low, and building a blog is a very helpless and painful process, university can try, I also did it in university. After work, it is not recommended that you directly register an account on a popular platform to write, or you should focus on writing articles.

Make 90% of your work free, and you can see it as an investment in your future

This should not need too much explanation, even if you charge no one to read ah. Fight xi Xi to start when not also everywhere throw money, everywhere looking for someone to cut? Pei! You don’t treat your employees like people.

Try speaking in public

I used to be too scared. Now I’m too flaky. That’s all from practice.

As long as I have no shame, I will not be ashamed. As long as I’m not embarrassed, someone else is.

The object of writing a book is not money, but fame

Even if you’re trying to make money, you can’t make it. Money doesn’t come easy. It’s true that a good book can make you influential

Write bad also want to write, do not write the level will not improve

The book needs a high level, writing articles need not ah, rotten not afraid, afraid you do not write, except aisin Gioro hongli, no one will write more and more bad

Practice makes perfect. The more you do, the better

Don’t be creative. Do something today, do something tomorrow. Early is the need to constantly repeat, the code does not knock only look is sure to learn not. Do IT, note helpless pain, need to have a strong ability of self-study and continuous learning

A degree is not necessary, but it is important

For the same interview with a company, you only need to reach 70% with a degree, and 100% without one

Identify the weak points and eliminate them

The worst thing you can do is pretend to know what you don’t know.

Pit does not step on now, will step on later, later fall not necessarily can climb up, so suffer early, and will suffer, suffer is not a blessing, will eat is a blessing.

focus

The author explains a bunch of benefits of focus, what’s more productive and so on. In my opinion, the most practical is to make time pass faster. Look at the time. I can punch out.

Learn to finance

Is money important? A lot of people are talking about it now. If you think about a problem, there used to be 10,000 yuan households, but now every family is 10,000 yuan households.

Money will always depreciate, so how to manage it is worth learning, at least you need to learn how to beat inflation, in fact, I hope my future wife can manage money, how happy is that

Learn to fitness

Poor health, it will be easy to shake hands, hand shake is easy to send a few words wrong. Tearful become temporary, was kicked out by the company.

You can get a gym membership, but you have to go!

If you can run, don’t ride. If you can ride, don’t walk. If you can walk, don’t sit.

Learn to embrace failure

Who has not failed, or who can not fail, by virtue of who can stand up in numerous failures!

One last word

Conditional still hope to see original work, support genuine edition!

There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers.