Hi folks,

This is the weekly digest for my blog, Irrational Exuberance, and these are my posts from the last week. Always grateful to hear your thoughts and suggestions for topics to write about, drop me a tweet or direct message over on Twitter at @lethain.

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- I wrote a book: An Elegant Puzzle.
- Newsletter for Irrational Exuberance.

I wrote a book: An Elegant Puzzle.

Over the past year, I've been working to put together a book on engineering management, and I'm extraordinarily excited to share it with the world, and especially with the folks who are kind enough to read this blog.

The book is An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, and will be available in about two months on March 26th, 2019.

Sign up here for updates on the book, or consider signing up for my weekly summary of blog posts, which will also include updates on An Elegant Puzzle.

I'm particularly grateful to get to publish my book with Stripe Press, who have been extraordinary in transforming my rough words and rougher sketches into something beautiful while retaining the occasional hint of whimsy.

So much of writing words, writing software, and being a manager is a method of creating the abstract and intangible. There is something very visceral, and surprisingly moving, to hold in my hands something that I created. Certainly not something I created alone, this book is the byproduct of the endless help and partnership from Brianna and Tyler at Stripe Press and the help of many other folks along the way, but there is certainly a lot of me is in this book. That's exciting and it's a bit scary.

Please sign up here to know when An Elegant Puzzle is available!

Newsletter for Irrational Exuberance.

If you've enjoyed some of my posts or talks, I'd love to send you a weekly digest of my writing. Each digest will include the posts I've written in the past week, going out on Wednesday mornings.

If you want to get a better sense, you can see subscribe via RSS.

While putting together my newsletter, I leaned heavily on Julia Evan's advice, and also learned a bit from seeing how patio11 and Andrew Chen approached their newsletters. Thanks to all, especially Julia.

That's all for now! Hope to hear your thoughts on Twitter at @lethain!