Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| 1. | Introduction |
| Who Is the 21st-Century Programmer? |
| Discovering the Lessons Firsthand |
| This Book Is About Us |
| 2. | Metaphor |
| Essay 1. Follow Metaphors with Care |
| Essay 2. Plan Enough, Then Build |
| Essay 3. Launch Is Just the First Release |
| Essay 4. The “Ivory Tower” Architect Is a Myth |
| Essay 5. Throw Away Your Old Code |
| Essay 6. Diversification Over Specialization |
| Essay 7. Metaphors Hide Better Ways of Working |
| 3. | Motivation |
| Essay 8. The Perks Are in the Work |
| Essay 9. Begin Where You Love to Begin |
| Essay 10. Be Imperfect |
| Essay 11. Stop Programming |
| Essay 12. Test Your Work First Thing in the Morning |
| Essay 13. Work Outside the Bedroom |
| Essay 14. First Impressions Are Just That |
| Essay 15. The Emotional Value of Launch |
| Essay 16. Find an Argument |
| 4. | Productivity |
| Essay 17. Just Say “No” to the Pet Project |
| Essay 18. Constrain All of Your Parameters |
| Essay 19. Cut the Detail Out of the Timeline |
| Essay 20. Improve Your Product in Two Ways Daily |
| Essay 21. Invest in a Good Work Environment |
| Essay 22. Keep a Personal To-Do List |
| Essay 23. Create “Off-Time” with Your Team |
| Essay 24. Work in Small, Autonomous Teams |
| Essay 25. Eliminate the “We” in Productivity |
| 5. | Complexity |
| Essay 26. Sniff Out Bad Complexity |
| Essay 27. The Simplicity Paradox |
| Essay 28. Complexity as a Game of Pickup Sticks |
| Essay 29. Keep Complexity Under the Surface |
| Essay 30. “Hard to Code” Might Mean “Hard to Use” |
| Essay 31. Know When to Refactor |
| Essay 32. Develop a Programming Cadence |
| 6. | Teaching |
| Essay 33. Teaching Is Unlike Coding |
| Essay 34. Beware the “Curse of Knowledge” |
| Essay 35. Teach with Obvious Examples |
| Essay 36. Lie to Simplify |
| Essay 37. Encourage Autonomous Thought |
| 7. | Clients |
| Essay 38. The Tough Client Is Ubiquitous |
| Essay 39. Demystify the Black Magic of Software |
| Essay 40. Define the Goals of Your Application |
| Essay 41. Be Enthusiastic and Opinionated |
| Essay 42. Be Forgiving and Personable |
| Essay 43. Value Is Much More Than Time |
| Essay 44. Respect Your Project Manager |
| 8. | Code |
| Essay 45. Write Code As a Last Resort |
| Essay 46. A Plug-in Happy Culture |
| Essay 47. Code Is the Ultimate Junior Developer |
| Essay 48. Separate Robot Work from Human Work |
| Essay 49. Generating Code at Its Core |
| Essay 50. The Case for Rolling Your Own |
| 9. | Pride |
| We Have a Marketing Problem |
| Lessons from the Cooking Industry |
| A1. | Bibliography |
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