James G. Skakoon

I am a software developer, I really appreciated this book, and I wish I had been aware of it when I started my career (I am about 10 years in now)

Dunno if I would have listened, but having stumbled around in the dark for a decade, I found its advice on employee and mentor temperament to be really valuable, and the latest editions cut out the stuff that I feel doesn't age well or account for some of the changes in what is considered professionalism in 2010s software development. I am very much appreciating its advice on how to be a senior/manager because that is probably something I'm going to have to start thinking about soon at this point in my career.

It's a quick read and a clear easy one to digest. It can't really help you if the people around you aren't producing a healthy and productive workplace environment (something like How F*cked is Your Management or The Phoenix Project or The Goal might be able to help there) but if you have a general feeling of comfort that you are in a generally supportive and reasonable environment with _some_ kind of structure, this book will help a lot. It will help a lot in structure-less places too, but the book goes for a slower place than necessarily appropriate for a startup where everyone is expected to show leadership and responsibilities are ill-defined. It would still be good information to have though, even if it has to be adapted to one's situation a bit.… (meer)