"Building A Startup" published!

Some of you may know but I’ve been working on a book putting all the best practices, anecdotes, code samples, and experiences I’ve had over the last handful of years into a book to help others grow and scale small companies in a way that is resilient and sustainable. My book, Building A Startup - A Primer For The Individual Contributor has hit the bookshelves and is available for purchase both as print and epub, as well as available here as a free PDF.

I’ve long talked about writing a book, I mean it’s basically just like 100 blog posts chained together sort of, but I didn’t get the chance to really sit down and write it till last summer when I was between jobs. I decided to finally do a brain dump of all the things I’ve been evangelizing and putting into practice for years with the intent to be able to share this with new teams I join and people I mentor.

For those interested in the book writing process it was surprisingly accessible. I wrote my original manuscript in google docs, about 100 pages worth, and then hired a wonderful development editor off of reedsy who helped me flesh the book out into something cohesive. Then I hired a proof reader (again off reedsy) who polished the book and made it ready for publication. At that point I handed the book off to a great graphic designer, Christian Arnder, who beautifully designed the cover and inside layout of the book.

For e-pub we used the kindle create tool to upload a docx file and then do some tweaking and used the kindle previewer to make sure it formatted well and then it was easy to publish and release via amazon KDP.

I’d love for anyone who reads the book to drop a comment or review, and I’m always happy to hear feedback if there’s any questions or comments.

Enjoy!