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Index
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About This Book
About the Author
Chapter 1. Why this book is unlike any book you’ve ever read
Section 1. Career
Chapter 2. Getting started with a “BANG!”: Don’t do what everyone else does
Chapter 3. Thinking about the future: What are your goals?
Chapter 4. People skills: You need them more than you think
Chapter 5. Hacking the interview
Chapter 6. Employment options: Enumerate your choices
Chapter 7. What kind of software developer are you?
Chapter 8. Not all companies are equal
Chapter 9. Climbing the corporate ladder
Chapter 10. Being a professional
Chapter 11. Freedom: How to quit your job
Chapter 12. Freelancing: Going out on your own
Chapter 13. Creating your first product
Chapter 14. Do you want to start a startup?
Chapter 15. Working remotely survival strategies
Chapter 16. Fake it till you make it
Chapter 17. Resumes are BORING—Let’s fix that
Chapter 18. Don’t get religious about technology
Section 2. Marketing yourself
Chapter 19. Marketing basics for code monkeys
Chapter 20. Building a brand that gets you noticed
Chapter 21. Creating a wildly successful blog
Chapter 22. Your primary goal: Add value to others
Chapter 23. #UsingSocialNetworks
Chapter 24. Speaking, presenting, and training: Speak geek
Chapter 25. Writing books and articles that attract a following
Chapter 26. Don’t be afraid to look like an idiot
Section 3. Learning
Chapter 27. Learning how to learn: How to teach yourself
Chapter 28. My 10-step process
Chapter 29. Steps 1–6: Do these once
Chapter 30. Steps 7–10: Repeat these
Chapter 31. Looking for mentors: Finding your Yoda
Chapter 32. Taking on an apprentice: Being Yoda
Chapter 33. Teaching: Learn you want? Teach you must.
Chapter 34. Do you need a degree or can you “wing it?”
Chapter 35. Finding gaps in your knowledge
Section 4. Productivity
Chapter 36. It all starts with focus
Chapter 37. My personal productivity plan
Chapter 38. Pomodoro Technique
Chapter 39. My quota system: How I get way more done than I should
Chapter 40. Holding yourself accountable
Chapter 41. Multitasking dos and don’ts
Chapter 42. Burnout: I’ve got the cure!
Chapter 43. How you’re wasting your time
Chapter 44. The importance of having a routine
Chapter 45. Developing habits: Brushing your code
Chapter 46. Breaking down things: How to eat an elephant
Chapter 47. The value of hard work and why you keep avoiding it
Chapter 48. Any action is better than no action
Section 5. Financial
Chapter 49. What are you going to do with your paycheck?
Chapter 50. How to negotiate your salary
Chapter 51. Options: Where all the fun is
Chapter 52. Bits and bytes of real estate investing
Chapter 53. Do you really understand your retirement plan?
Chapter 54. The danger of debt: SSDs are expensive
Chapter 55. Bonus: How I retired at 33
Section 6. Fitness
Chapter 56. Why you need to hack your health
Chapter 57. Setting your fitness criteria
Chapter 58. Thermodynamics, calories, and you
Chapter 59. Motivation: Getting your butt out of the chair
Chapter 60. How to gain muscle: Nerds can have bulging biceps
Chapter 61. How to get hash-table abs
Chapter 62. Starting RunningProgram.exe
Chapter 63. Standing desks and other hacks
Chapter 64. Tech gear for fitness: Geeking out
Section 7. Spirit
Chapter 65. How the mind influences the body
Chapter 66. Having the right mental attitude: Rebooting
Chapter 67. Building a positive self-image: Programming your brain
Chapter 68. Love and relationships: Computers can’t hold your hand
Chapter 69. My personal success book list
Chapter 70. Facing failure head-on
Chapter 71. Parting words
Appendix A. If you can write code, you can understand finances
Appendix B. How the stock market works: Rules of the system
Appendix C. Garbage in, garbage out: Diet and nutrition basics
Appendix D. How to eat healthy: Pizza is not a food group
Index
List of Tables
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