Hey! Last year I was fortunate enough to sign a deal to write a book with my favorite technical publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf. When I started out as an Engineering Manager many years ago, I found that there wasn't a huge amount of material that specifically and practically helped me understand how to do my job. When you learn to program there's all of these amazing tutorials, examples and guides, but what was there for new managers? In response to this, a couple of years ago I started a blog over at theengineeringmanager.com which got a decent amount of traction - I had a few front-pages on HN too, which was awesome. I improved a lot as a writer. This gave me the confidence to pitch a book to numerous publishers and thankfully my ideal choice wanted to work with me. The book has now been released in beta, which means you get DRM-free access to a digital copy while we wait for it to go into print production. After that it'll be available on Amazon and in all other good bookshops. Happy to hear your feedback and discuss anything related to the content of the book or the process of writing it. There's lots of interesting discussion over on the Show HN I did a couple of months ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...