(Part 2) Best business culture books according to redditors
We found 1,664 Reddit comments discussing the best business culture books. We ranked the 556 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
100% agree with /u/Alligator777.
I work remotely for my company. They're based in Boston, pay Boston-based wages, and I live in the Denver area. I can finish work and be outside climbing in about ten minutes.
Bonus is remote-first companies tend to have better management structures anyway.
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In the last two years, I've worked for my company from eight or nine countries, and dozens of states in the USA.
Even when I'm not traveling, working remotely beats the snot out of not working remotely.
Where in the stack do you work, and what's your specialty? I might be able to point you in some helpful directions.
Total comp (base plus bonus) is a little over 200k. I work in HR strategy and I love it. I am single with no kids and my boss lives across the country, so I don't really count my hours that much. Some days I work from 10-3 if I'm just not feeling it and have a bunch of personal errands to run. Other days I work from 6am to 10pm because I'm on a roll and in the groove with something I'm working on. There's no expectation that I work on the weekends or evenings, but I do sometimes anyways. I just generally make sure that I get a lot of quality work done and that my leader is happy. My own standards are super high, so I don't tend to have a problem with my leader thinking I'm slacking.
Also, the best thing about my work/life balance is getting to work from home when I don't have meetings that require me to be in the office. Today I worked from home in PJs. Sometimes I'll watch a movie while answering emails.
I worked my ass off for 15 years to reach this point and I feel like for the first time since high school I can take a breath and just enjoy my life. Gotta say I'm proud of myself. :)
Edit: For those who are curious about exploring what HR strategy is all about, I highly recommend reading Work Rules, which is about how HR works at Google.
Book recommendation for you: Disney Institute's Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
If you're interested in digging into this I'd highly recommend Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports.
Just so you know, DD is a bit ambiguous in finance land and I was confused (I thought you had automated your direct deposit ala The Automatic Millionaire). I figured it out from context though.
But yes, I agree that you can get most of the benefit for little work. In MMM's example, he considers reducing expenses to be increasing his quality of life, so I read his blog from that perspective.
Personally, I enjoy thinking about optimizing. I'm an engineer and I like to see how much fluff I can cut out without negatively impacting our happiness. My wife isn't the same way, so she keeps me in check. I'm not as hardcore as MMM, but I do bike to work, do most of my own home repairs and rarely eat out, and sometimes to my wife I might as well be MMM (she grew up in a high spending, low income family, I grew up in the opposite).
Don't cut anything that will make you less happy. I think we and MMM can agree on that. =)
Actually they did. It has just been erroded over the history of the county.
After fighting a revolution to end the exploitation by corporations, our country's founding founders retained a very healthy fear of corporate power and put great restrictions on corporations and what they could do.
Most state charters contained very strict limits on corporations. They limited how long corporations could exist. They put strict limitations on the type of commerce they could engage in. They were not allowed to own shares in other corporations. The owners were held responsible for criminal acts committed by corporations. And government kept a close watch on how corporations were being run. They often revoked corporate charters if they were found to not be serving the public interest.
And perhaps most telling, they made it law that corporations could not make political donations. I repeat, in most states it was a crime for corporations to make political donations.
EDIT; Sources
"Essays In The Earlier History Of American Corporations." concentrates on corporations in the last two decades of the 1700s. Heavily footnoted and a good source. http://www.archive.org/details/essaysinearlierh01daviuoft
"Unequal Protection" by Thom Hartman provides some good early history. http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Protection-Corporations-Became-People/dp/1605095591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302207568&sr=8-1
Google search on "founding fathers on corporations."
Corporate Socialism is just a similar term for Corporate welfare. Read David Cay Johnston's Free Lunch if you haven't already. I got nothing against corporations by the way. I want to start one!
Here are a few that I've found useful relating to teamwork, management, and/or general career shit:
Radical Candor. It's good even for those who don't want to manage.
https://www.amazon.ca/Radical-Candor-Kick-Ass-Without-Humanity/dp/1250103509/ref=asc_df_1250103509/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292868487024&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11662765216197635084&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000793&hvtargid=pla-432939647199&psc=1#
> Apple and Microsoft both ripped off Xerox's gui.
Actually that is wrong. The majority of the Mac OS X GUI was made by people who didn't saw the Xerox demonstration and did stuff based on what they assumed Xerox's system did from the descriptions of the people who saw it. An example would be the ability to draw the windows' contents when it isn't active - Bill Atkinson (the low level mind behind most of the GUI stuff) simply assumed that this was what Xerox did because to him made more sense. In reality the Xerox system only drew the window contents when you clicked/activated it. Also stuff like the Finder, menu bar, the distinction between windows and folders and a bunch of other things which today we take for granted were developed by these people.
This book does a great job describing the story of making the first Macintosh by one of the original developers.
Xerox obviously had a big influence (before that the Mac was more text oriented) but it was far from a rip off.
Is Mr. General Electric Corporation's ownership of Mrs. National Broadcasting Company in violation of the 13th amendment?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m15OHYRU90ST0Z/
http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Protection-Corporations-Became-People/dp/1605095591
Laszlo Bock explain in much more detail in his book Work Rules!. Also he talks about the other cool things at Google. :)
I loved living in SF but to be honest unless you are a startup founder, in Y Combinator, maybe, or VERY early startup hire with extreme equity I don't think living in SF is tenable. The city's dysfunctional housing and taxation politics are almost unbelievable. Jerry Brown has been trying to fix the problem but has not been successful.
The choices are exit, voice, or loyalty. I tried voice and failed. Exit was and is better for me as an individual.
You want fucked-up? A friend worked for a Very Large Bank in America and was in a conference room waiting for some other attendees to arrive, and someone asked him what he had done that weekend.
"I was in a pistol competition." he replied.
Later that afternoon, corporate security escorted him to HR, and then off the property with a "no tresspassing" letter. Out of work.
Turns out that one of the people in the room had applied for the open position that he had ended up getting. So they took the opportunity to tell HR "I felt threatened", and everything naturally followed from there. And they were promoted into his place.
https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know-ebook/dp/B003K15PC4
For me it all started with checking out The Automatic Millionaire from the library. Started reading more library books about personal finance, and then snowballed from there.
The Millionaire Next Door changed my entire perspective on money and life. If you read no other PF book, read that one - it's an eye opener. Along the same lines, I'd recommend Your Money or Your Life. If you don't want to be really hands-on with your finances (I have a lot of friends like this) I usually recommend The Automatic Millionaire. It's got a infomercial-esque title, but in reality it's an easy read with really good ideas, particularly for the uninterested/inattentive.
As for investing, try The Boglehead's Guide to Investing. A lot of the info is free at the Boglehead Wiki.
For FREE reading, head over to The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly. Both are incredibly useful websites with extensive archives on investing, frugality, debt, and all things personal finance. I read both every day!
(as an example, here's an article on the 25 Best Books About Money over at GRS.)
A lot of people like Dave Ramsey, but I don't recommend him very much. He's got good advice in there, but his books contain religious references that I feel are particularly useless in a personal finance guide.
Wow, you argue in favor of offshoring and have no idea what offshoring means.
What you describe with the Japanese televisions is normal business competition. A Japanese company with Japanese employees produced a superior product and proceeded to eat the lunch of American companies who would not or could not compete.
Offshoring is the intentional displacement of American workers by American companies because they can get an inferior product cheaply and they think they can get away with it.
Here are some examples:
Chrysler exported their auto manufacturing to Mexico to churn out cheap PT Cruisers and other vehicles. This was "the giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot warned about. They have yet to recover from that debacle.
Meanwhile Japanese companies bring more and more manufacturing to the United States due to the experience and quality of the workmanship.
Tech companies outsourced their support organizations to India because, surprise! Cheaper. Then they were shocked to find out that their customer base didn't LIKE talking to Indian or Phillipino tech support. That's all coming back now too.
The most egregious example of outsourcing was fast food restaurants connecting their drive through order boxes to prison labor in other states. Hey, why pay soneone minimum wage to take orders when you can pay Joe the Rapist pennies?
Yeah, that didn't fly either, soon reversed.
The base of all this is like most Republicans you live in your own little bubble and have no clue how the world actually works.
Please, please, please educate yourself before trying to make more silly arguments on the Internet.
In fact, here's a hand up:
Pick up a couple of books, read them and let me know what you think. They are absolute eye openers:
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everyone Else
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0028QRMUK/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1450833597&sr=8-4&keywords=perfectly+legal+david+cay+johnston&dpPl=1&dpID=51Faysd7HVL&ref=plSrch
(Hot damn, he has a new one, I didn't know that! Goes to bookstore...)
The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591846536/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BN2BNG7B1P4KN259KBF
A book that's somewhat related to this is Corporate Confidential. It's a goldmine of information about employment from the Human Resources perspective. In relation to this specific event, when an employee brings a lot of controversy or the possibility of legal action against the company they'll usually get fired. Doesn't necessarily mean it's morally right, but that is what will generally happen regardless of other factors.
Be Our Guest comes to mind.
https://www.amazon.com/Be-Our-Guest-Perfecting-Institute/dp/1423145844
You buy me whisky?
Where I work, Expedia, we do the occasional meetup, like speed dating, where we attempt to match mentors and mentees.
But, for homework, read these books.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J53IE1O/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XP3GJ7F/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B0041G68WS/
In all seriousness, unlikely I can help out directly, I've got 4 peeps I'm mentoring at the moment, (2 internal to my company, 2 external)
you're not alone.
books that have helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Somebody-Around-Insider-Secrets-Hired/dp/0312373341
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them by Cynthia Shapiro
Link: http://amzn.com/B003K15PC4
No one will ever tell you they have an issue with you. No one likes confrontation and they figure if you don't know the imaginary, unofficial rules of Corporate America, then you don't belong there anyway.
HR is not there for you. HR is there to keep the company from getting sued. Makes friends with someone and ask them to give you honest feedback about how you behave/come across and any insider tips on the culture at the office. It's the only way to survive.
I've never been at a job more than a couple years. Edit: mostly because I don't do politics and butt kissing and get so bored I stop doing my job.
> Was someone able to identify something fishy in their publicly released statements (balance sheets, P&L) or any other news/indicators which could have acted as precedence to something being wrong and thereby avoid such companies in their investment portfolio?
There are some ways to check this - but nothing that is 100% reliable.
You should read about Beneish M-Score and Financial Shenanigans.
The M-Score tries to predict if the reported earnings are being manipulated.
The book Financial Shenanigans looks at common ways companies try to manipulate earnings, cash flow and other metrics in their financial reports.
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250103509/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_PQ4UDb5C6B0J2
You wear pants? Amateur. Someone actually wrote a book about the company I work for titled "The Year Without Pants": https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118660633/
Deeply sorry for your loss. I received some advice as a young man about windfalls that I’ll share with you.
Forget about the money for a year. Open a separate bank account that you won’t see and live like it isn’t there. The lost income from investments for one year will be insignificant compared to the cost of a hurried misstep.
In a year with a clear head and a strong heart educate yourself about different investment philosophies and see which ones resonate with you. Investing is very personal and there isn’t one right answer.
There isn’t a right answer, but be wary of the salesmen. All the money / wealth managers are well compensated for their advice and there are many ways they hide their fees and take advantage of their clients (even fiduciaries). If you’re considering enlisting a professional, a robotic trader like https://www.wealthfront.com/ or https://intelligent.schwab.com/ will serve you just as well with lower fees. If you do decide to enlist an advisor to help formulate a financial plan for you, find a fee-based advisor who you can pay once every few years to update the plan.
Here are a few books that were helpful to me in developing my investment philosophy that allowed me to retire in my early thirties.
Bogleheads / Vanguard Index Funds
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Common-Sense-Investing/dp/1119404509
The Richest Man in Babylon (investing philosophy)
https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/1505339111
Dave Ramsey / Personal Finance
https://www.amazon.com/Total-Money-Makeover-Financial-Fitness/dp/159555078X
Tax-Free Wealth - Tom Wheelwright / How investments affect your taxes
https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Free-Wealth-Permanently-Lowering-Advisors/dp/1937832058
Where are the Customer’s Yachts
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Street/dp/0471770892
> I've never been a people manager.
There's oodles of books on this topic that will be far more beneficial than any academic program. I like Managing Humans. It's so much less about being confronted with dicey situations, and so much more about teasing out situations that may become dicey. There's a fine art to that. The things that are in-your-face as problems are trivial by comparison :)
Michael Lopp also has a podcast. Here's the one about management:
https://overcast.fm/+H4J-3Yk3c
Other book recommendations on the topics of "management" and "engineering management":
> I've never had budget responsibility and don't have any sort of business/financial management experience.
Don't take a management job without someone above you on the org chart spending around an hour every week coaching you and your team through the transition. A small part of that should be "here's how to manage budgets. here's your dollars."
To provide a better plan, keep
theany job one more year. During this time live as cheaply as possible and put all the money into paying off the loans and savings. During this time start working on the prototype in your spare time, show some proof of concept that it actually works. Now you might be ready to go start your business and it will only take a year or so.Check this out - http://www.amazon.com/Quitter-Closing-Between-Your-Dream/dp/0982986270/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394824738&sr=8-1&keywords=quitter
edit: Keep any job, it doesn't have to be the current job but you can't afford to start your own business right now.
Agreed - A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the best book out there.
Also, see The Automatic Millionaire. This is a convincing book as to why you need to start saving for retirement at a young age, and how every year you wait to start saving can result in tens of thousands lost at retirement. (Essentially - compound interest starts compounding hugely after 25 years).
Also, Fooled by Randomness is a classic as well about having a sophisticated approach to investing - e.g. how randomness fools individuals into thinking that they're actually controlling the market in investing...
A book I can't recommend more (for being in management) is Radical Candor
I just moved into a Lead position myself and it has helped.
Last year Ackman publicly announced that he had unwound his short position in favor of taking on equal short exposure through put options (constructed and priced OTC of course) exactly to avoid getting squeezed out. Not sure if he is closing out part of the position early, or what the expiry structure of the contracts was/is.
Not that he doesn't want to turn a profit on this trade and be proven right for all the world to heap praise on him for making money and vanquishing a terrible fraud of a company that preys on gullible dreamers in the lower class, but he has said publicly that the profits on his HLF will go to charity (I assume that by this he means profits that would be attributable to him as a shareholder in his own funds, and that independent shareholders have no concrete agreement to charitable giving from any of the profits they earn with Pershing).
Lastly, I highly recommend David Einhorn's "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" as it is a) very entertaining and interesting, and b) should expose some similarities to Ackman's current fight against HLF.
I like these anecdotes that show the power of compound interest. Here is another from The Automatic Millionaire. I saw something like this in my early 20s, and being a math nerd, I've been compelled to max out my retirement contributions ever since. I'm now in my early 40s and have around $700k saved for retirement. The future is looking pretty sweet.
I feel ya. 8 years at my first job. I know, I know... Waaaay too long.
It paid the bills, had a flexible schedule, allowed me to do freelance. The problem was that it also sucked the creative life out of me and, due to the position's limited capacity, has kind of hamstrung my career path. Now that I'm married and looking to up my game for the next phase of life, I see how staying here has hurt me. (which isn't to say it hasn't had its advantages, like making contacts, etc)
Rather than feeling stuck at your current job, think of it as a springboard for getting to your next (or dream) job. That's what I've been learning as I read Quitter.
Sure, scientists are wage slaves, but they are also above uncredentialed workers in a very distinct hierarchy. Professionals are expected to assign their creativity to whatever benefits their bosses/owners, but do this without direct supervision. They internalize the logic of capital to a much greater degree than a nonprofessional worker who is simply expected to follow orders. Disciplined Minds is a brilliant analysis of the professional class with a focus on science and the academy. The audio book version is free.
I think he's taking a lot of those ideas from the book "Disciplined minds". However, that book is only looking at people who went to graduate school. I remember hearing Chomsky giving positive comments on this book in the past.
Books you may enjoy:
I can't suggest anything by Robert X. Cringely or Steve Wozniak. The two men are revisionists that, given the forum, would claim Apple single-handledly created the very universe we live in.
This is from a different post on the same topic:
I would start here
Some additional books that I like are:
Financial Schnanigans
Avoiding the winner's curse
If you are interested in high-yield debt (and you should be, this is where all of the action is), then read the first four books on Amazon
Finally, learn the basics of accounting and financial accounting. Finance is just a bunch of ratios. You need to understand how the numbers are created before you can analyze them.
> I figure, since I was here first, he needs to go.
Unfortunately, even though that's all good and well your head, reality doesn't reflect this. In 99% of the cases of worker bees trying to overpower a member of management, the worker bee WILL lose. Right or wrong, management will stand together unless something is overtly grievous - and that means blatantly illegal with evidence.
You're better off spending time and energy finding a new job.
Trust me. I didn't take similar warning signs and didn't even rock the boat. Got a new boss a little over a year ago. Despite "meeting expectations" in 2017, 2018 has brought me a "performance review." He wrote me up on stupid, daily, human little things that aren't a problem. Never have had a problem ever and I'm mid career. Dbag decided I needed to be gotten rid of, and all of a sudden not being trained on something new is a problem. Being "two weeks late" when someone with more authority than either of us pushed the meeting back that two weeks was somehow my problem. You get the drift: stupid, nitpicky, irrelevant junk that doesn't matter WILL get written up and you WILL be given notice.
Neither your time nor energy is worth spending on a loser. Bail while you still have your own terms to exit on. The company will figure it out when the team becomes a turnover problem and he's left holding the bag.
If you're going into battle, do not go unarmed.
I'd recommend "Revolution in the Valley" over the Isaacson Jobs biography. All the good stuff in the Jobs biography was taken from "Revolution in the Valley". If you don't believe me, check the end notes.
Kudos to you for tackling the big issues! I would give "Work Rules" a read. I recommend it to all HR professionals. It'll get you even more motivated to make work better for the folks in your office!
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As for HR management software, I'd give Workday a call. I know they've been working hard to tailor their stuff for small to medium sized businesses.
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+1 to speaking with the owner and getting them aligned to your goals. The worst thing that could happen is you do all this work and the owner shoots it down. I would present a 1-3 year road map on what you plan to do, how you plan to do it, the cost of doing it, and the outcome of doing it. Get them excited about it, too!
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Good luck to you and don't let the negative comments get in your head! You can do it!
12 years old, but I think it would still apply: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth by Ric Edelman. Also, Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
A friend of mine highly recommends this book I don't, because I read it, and it made me baby-punching angry.
Note: Brujahrage uses the phrase "Baby-punching angry" as a hyperbolic device. Brujahrage, reddit, and most sane people do not actually advocate punching babies.
There's also https://weworkremotely.com/ from the guys who make basecamp, dedicated to work from home jobs.
With regards to freelancing, don't worry about global competition so much. It's not a race to the bottom. If you can prove yourself to be better than the global guys, whether that be skill, timezone, communication etc. then you can charge higher. You don't want to do QA for the people who aren't willing to pay, but there's going to be people who will pay premium for a job done well. You just need to market yourself well.
If you're going to do it I highly recommend reading The Year Without Pants (http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633), about an ex microsoftie who went to work for Wordpress which is fully remote. Brilliant read whether you want to work remote or not, but particularly relevant in this case.
This reminds me of... Corporate Confidential, a book by Cynthia Shapiro. In it, she talks about situations just like this and other eye opening shenanigans companies pull.
Not specific to IT, but a good read with universal applicability:
Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423145844/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_vg7FybM4XF4NB
> He's what you get what you forget that tv isn't real life.
Damn this is astute. Isn't it funny that it's practically a requirement to be a celebrity to run for President now? Now we're going to have an Oprah Presidency? I want off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.
> You don't just throw away your shoes because they got holes in them if you can't afford new ones.
This is exactly the feeling I had as I watched the party throw itself under the Trump bus.
> It's the ' trickle down' mentality all over again
Wow. This is an outstanding analysis. Seriously Trump just copied the Reagan thing. Liberals are suckers for bleeding heart types promising handouts that never come and Republicans are suckers for strong guy business masterminds that never actually bring the jobs. The american public has GOT to stop falling for the media propaganda and clearly manufactured 'tropes' (I think with the alt media though we are on are way; traditional media is collapsing.) I have a feeling though this is a LOT bigger then Trump; I think the corporate interest hand and hand with wealthy foreign players have almost the entire GOP by the BALLS.
We are in this weird political age were the only reason people are getting into politics is for all the side profit (dirty money, crony capitalism, book deals, bribes, sweet retirement jobs lobbying or broadcasting etc.)
> the only thing you're going to feel trickling down is billionaires pissing on you as they have been for decades.
This is why I've become a strict libertarian. I think poor government laws and welfare fuck up economics but I also think crony capitalism and regulatory capture fucks up enterprise capitalism. You can't fucking run a hotdog stand in this country without 2 layers a year of permit application and a 100k of startup and knowing one of the legislators.
I think David Cay Johnston has also been writing about this economic stuff as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Absolutely! Here's a short list of non-magic books that I commonly see recommended to magicians.
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
Delft Design Guide - multiple authors
An Acrobat of the Heart - Stephen Wangh (shouts out to u/mustardandpancakes for the recommendation)
In Pursuit of Elegance - Guy Kawasaki
The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter, illustrated by George Chiang
Verbal Judo - George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins
Be Our Guest - Ted Kinni and The Disney Institute
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Lots of common themes even on such a short list. What would you add to the list? What would you take away?
> Just what the heck is this shit?
professionalization... theres a good book about how the process convinces you to do things you would consider ridiculous or even contrary to your values
Read/Audiobook this before you go - [Work Rules] (https://www.amazon.ca/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transform/dp/1455554790)
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives
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This book would answer yes. It's been a while since I've read it, admittedly. But what really stuck with me was the idea that school, in the case of the book it was graduate level schooling, selected for people that were willing to submit to the demands of the institution and the individuals that made it up regardless of how absurd those demands were. Graduate students aren't exactly known for loving their lives as they have to deal with committees, panels, advisors, and a multitude of other factors that each hold a part of the key to their future, not to mention themselves. If those parts of the keys don't line up, then a graduate student will fail.
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From a critical standpoint of capitalism, a benevolent perspective is that self-discipline gives individuals the opportunity to make sure the part of their own key is fashioned to reduce as much friction with the other parts to increase the chances of that key lining up. But, even so, every individual exists within a social context that will go a long way to determining that individual's future just as much, if not more than, the individual's own actions. Hence the focus on collectivizing in modes of life that collectivists have. Success isn't about achieving something as an individual. So, while self-discipline is still useful from the anti-capitalist perspective, it's not quite as useful as picket lines and strikes and whatnot.
The Clean Coder is pretty great as it talks about being a professional developer and all that that entails. Very opinionated though (as all of Uncle Bob's books are). "If you don't do TDD, fuck you" is a fairly accurate paraphrasing of one chapter. Still, I found a lot of value there.
I recently read Rework which is a very quick read, but very dense with information on how Basecamp runs their business and many ideas of things that you should or should not do. If you do any freelancing or are thinking of starting your own business at some point, I'd recommend it.
Probably going to read Remote next as I'm working with remote business partners myself.
I would recommend checking out this book:
"What Color Is Your Parachute"
It helped me incredibly, good luck!!
Here's a non-affiliate link to a book on the topic which you might find interesting. It covers WordPress.com but much of what it talks about is applicable elsewhere.
As for myself, I've worked from home for about 4 years, currently as a web developer for a major university. There are lots of great jobs out there depending on your skill set.
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com-Future/dp/1118660633?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-osx-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1118660633
Read criticisms on international aid and development now or in college. There have been very many good ones written in the past 15 years or so about aid effectiveness, programming, results monitoring, and philosophy. The industry for the past couple of years has been undergoing some soul-searching as it struggles to quantify its positive impact and worth, and those pressures will only increase with the prevailing atmosphere of world politics.
The approaches I'm familiar with are the "Politics Matters" crowd which is trying to approach development with a greater focus on the politics of the countries they are working in and how to deal with that. There's some background context here involving the Washington Consensus and its failure, and a long-running development industry focus on technical assistance, financial support, and conditional loans, which is shifting. Some good reading that may be a little early for you as a junior in high school but you could maybe glean some insights from it:
Adrian Leftwich on Thinking and Working Politically
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by AO Hirschmann
Overseas Development Institute's Thinking and Working Politically Reading Pack
Doing Development Differently community's book they're centered around Harvard I believe, it's free
As others have said a technical focus will help you get an initial job (and one that might even actually pay well), but you can enter as a generalist it's just harder. I kind of half-heartedly studied economics as an undergrad and that was my only higher education but I managed to find a niche in development for many years (and may return to it in a few years). Development agencies and international NGOs fetishize advanced degrees, almost everyone else I met in the industry who was at a program management level and above had at least a master's and many had a Ph.D, except for me. I never felt hamstrung in actual work terms by my lack of an advanced degree, but it is hard to get your foot in the door without one. I just luckily stumbled upon a boss and mentor who didn't really care about those unwritten rules who gave me my start and then helped me lift myself up continuously throughout my career.
I would also highly recommend learning a language, and like u/travelingag recommended study a lot of history, especially focusing on modern history of the last ~150 or so years. I can't say whether going deep is better than going broad, but definitely (obviously) focus on undeveloped areas of the world where int. development organizations work. It would be a big waste of time to study a bunch of European history if you want to work on development.
Tools are important for the first interview.
However quantifiable achievements are important for all your interviews for each position
Try to express everything in terms of quantifiable impact for the organization
I read the book called "[Land the Tech Job You Love] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1934356263/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PeSLybHNKPWVF) " and I don't regret paying for it.
Ignore the fact that It says that online recruiting is not big, that's outdated, the rest is really good material
If you want a place for your all toolset knowledge: write a "buzzwords" section and put all the jargon + acronyms there
My boss had me read the book about google's HR policies when I first started. I really enjoyed it.
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https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transform/dp/1455554790
https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Shenanigans-Fourth-Accounting-Gimmicks/dp/126011726X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=B4XAMMAKCJH29WCWAQYQ
Two books that would be pretty good starting points (and a 3rd book for extra measure):
The first book you wanna pay special attention to Chapter 8 and Chapter 20, but read it ALL:
https://www.amazon.com/intelligent-investor-book-practical-counsel/dp/0060115912/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1557126552&sr=1-7
This one is more detialed
https://www.amazon.com/Security-Analysis-Foreword-Buffett-Editions/dp/0071592539/ref=pd_rhf_eeolp_s_pd_crcd_0_4/143-0942938-6072313?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0071592539&pd_rd_r=98601957-062a-4d2b-b4e5-10c14a0c824b&pd_rd_w=EmVty&pd_rd_wg=tAgWo&pf_rd_p=36c62ed8-9692-4b91-aa9a-c4b3b85cc759&pf_rd_r=XJ4NTWQMJ5KPRKTHCEZT&psc=1&refRID=XJ4NTWQMJ5KPRKTHCEZT
This third book isn't "reuired reading" but wouldn't be a bad idea to read---it teaches a healthy degree of cynicism about the things you read in financial reports and the things CEOs will tell you on TV---like CNBC etc
https://www.amazon.com/Fooling-People-Complete-Updated-Epilogue/dp/0470481544/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=david+einhorn&qid=1557126776&s=books&sr=1-2
GOOD LUCK!!!!!
I think you need to specify whether or not you want academic oriented work or something that is more entertainment oriented. For the latter, any Michael Lewis Books (The Big Short, etc.) or David Einhorn's Book (Fooling Some of the People All of the Time) would be good.
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried will give you all the arguments and talking points you could ever need to sell remote working to your company. http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=braest-20&linkId=12130157992a2fd47f4eb0ff14e95b73
Depends on what you want. But your probably mean for retirement.
In that case you probably want an IRA account. These accounts are specifically for retirement. You probably want to chose a Roth over a Traditional. The main difference is that you get taxed on a Roth immediately vs a Traditional when you get taxed on it when you take it out of the account (pretty sure, still a student).
Khan academy has Excellent videos on personal finance.
But if you just want to increase your financial skills in general. I think the best book for just everyday use for the everyday man would be The Richest Man in Babylon. Honestly, this book covers every man topic. You can get other books for more specifics, but this will help you on your way to financial literacy. Also, if you don't mind pdf books, then here is a free copy.
I've been in QA for about three years - started out in Support, kept getting stuck with the "weird" tickets, got better at troubleshooting and bug hunting, and eventually started doing testing with the dev team. Working at very small startups helped speed this process up tremendously. I'm now working at a ~500 person company (huuuuuge from my perspective, I'm used to a dozen coworkers, tops!) and learned Selenium/Capybara automated tests about a year ago.
I haven't found any quality-related books that have interested me, and most of the technical resources I've found have just been whatever pops up on Google/Stack Overflow. I am also subscribed to this subreddit, and /r/qualityassurance, but they're both pretty low-traffic, and I wish more articles were shared here. If there are any blog posts that have resonated with you, I'd love to take a look as well!
The best thing I've done for myself, technically, was re-writing our automated UI test suite in POM. This ended up saving me hours of work a few months later when we added a bunch of new features, and I just had to copy-paste a few things to test for them. This is a good overview:
https://www.guru99.com/page-object-model-pom-page-factory-in-selenium-ultimate-guide.html
Because of how much grief this saved me, I continue to evangelize for it!
I can, however, recommend some management/team/soft skills/business-y books! I'm not in love with my current company, so I end up reading a lot of these to keep myself sane and motivated. Here are some of the ones I've liked the best:
A lot of these are available in libraries too, and I've made a habit of checking them out there, and buying them if I really like them.
I hope this helps!
Start by asking yourself a few questions:
Use these questions to decide what specific questions _you_ want to ask. Be a little selfish. If you will be directly reporting to this new Dir of Eng, you should make sure they're going to be who you need them to be.
Personally I'd ask questions about:
Consider grabbing a copy of The Managers Path by Camille Fournier. The book provides really good descriptions of each typical level in an engineering organization, consider skipping ahead to the chapters on Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, and VP of Engineering to get an idea of where, ideally, they're coming from, where they should be, and where they're likely trying to grow to.
Also remember, other people at the company are interviewing this person for a variety of perspectives. Focus your questions on "how will this person help me/us do our jobs" because everyone else interviewing this person will be doing the same.
I think it all relates to one-another. You don't need schooling to be successful, but as a young adult, schooling is usually your primary responsibility. Your habits and intelligence begin very early on and I can almost think back to the things that influenced me to be the person I am now.
Just know that it's never too late to change your life. So, if now's not the time for you, then don't fret but maybe make some changes or read books from entrepreneurs. I've heard this book is good. I also like Mark Cuban's book.. I read a lot of informational blogs and articles online though. How people perceive you and respect is earned.
I think it's all important. At least for me, the busier I am with real responsibilities and goals, the better I do at all of them. So, doing well in school while creating something is probably the best recipe for success. On the other hand, student loan debt is a really bad trap most young adults fall into now.
In the end, if you're a hustler about the things you do, you'll find success. Entrepreneurship is more a mental stability game than anything else. I'm glad I had a decent job and consistent paycheck while I tried to do the entrepreneurship stuff. I wasn't a very good employee though.
EDIT: I think the most important thing is to also have "heros" or someone you really look up to. For me, that was my brother. He was naturally very intelligent, so even though I didn't keep up with him in school, I always had his influence for high accomplishments & goals.
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Written by a member of the original Mac team
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1449316247/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1394998489&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The only official biography, very in depth on the later years, but glosses over a lot of the early years when he was in my opinion a giant prick.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451648537/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1394998612&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40
What the dormouse said: How the sixties counterculture shaped the Internet
I don't have anything Atari specific to recommend but this book is excellent and covers a lot of the early people and companies that invented all of this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143036769/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1394998761&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40
He's been both. If you're really interested, I'd recommend reading Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. It was written by one of the core engineers who built the first Mac. It's very entertaining, and does shed a lot of light on Steve's management style.
Steve Jobs wasn't a designer, but every design decision had to go through him. Everything from the monitor chassis to the operations manual had to get his approval, and he had no problems rejecting design after design, until he got what he wanted.
He wasn't an engineer either, but every engineering decision went through him. He decided what went into the hardware* and software. When his engineers said something was impossible, he made them work late, and work weekends until they made it possible.
Jobs perfected the art of micromanaging, and even though he didn't know a capacitor from a resistor, the final product was in every way his vision, and it's that vision that sold products. He was an extreme narcissist, and no one else's ideas would have even been any good.
* Interesting antidote: The Mac engineers built an expansion port into the motherboard so users could upgrade the memory, add another printer, etc. Jobs nixed the idea. He felt that people should have to buy a whole new computer if they wanted to upgrade. The engineers went behind his back, and added an expansion port anyway, but they told Jobs it was a "diagnostics port". That same philosophy exists today. You can't upgrade the hard drive in your iPod. You're forced to buy a whole new iPod if you want a bigger hard drive.
Positive thinking. Yes, your worst case scenario may come true (someone yells at you, whatever), but a positive person would think, "wow, that person must have had a much terrible day than me."
Usually people ask me how I stay so calm during presentations. I say, "think about all the presentations you've seen in your life. Now think about how many of them were just straight up bad. Probably less than 1%, right? So based on that, you've got 99% chance of being good to fair, and only 1% chance of crashing and burning. The odds are in your favor!"
This also applies to you asking questions. How many times have people come to you asking a question? Isn't your first response usually, "okay, let me help you?" Most people are good and want to help you, so just trust that asking a question won't be met with scorn or intolerance.
Resume writing: The odds of you not getting the job are 100% if you don't send the resume in.
If you need more specific help with job hunting, I highly encourage you to read What Color is Your Parachute? It's a classic resource for job hunters for a reason: it works.
Read the book quitter by [Jon Acuff ](Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982986270/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZNyIybFKGC5YP)
Build a projects portfolio for the kind of projects you'd e apply for a job for.
Web app dev? Build and host a web app.
Android App dev? Build and publish a few apps.
DB Admin? Build and work with DBs.
If you can show a company you can do their work, by having already done it or done large components of it already, makes you a very attractive hire.
Read and follow this Bible's every word, mix and match as per your convenience though; Land the Tech Job You Love by Andy Lester. Look up the interweb and you might score a copy there or buy one if you want to have the hardcopy. You will keep returning to this book for the rest of your CS career, for the cool tips and ideas it provides. I highly recommend it.
No, without prime you pay price + shipping, which is the same as the prime price. Example, $27 prime vs $23 + ship non-prime
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
Would you ever quit it all and go a year without pants?
The picture linked in my view has the cover of his book.
Edit:https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
The Richest Man in Babylon - George Clason
There are classes in hospitality and resort management. If your parents are serious they and/or you should be taking them. Community colleges and even four year colleges offer degrees in this sort of thing.
Campgrounds are a huge industry. There are professional organizations dedicated to it. Find out about them and join.
You MIGHT have luck contacting Stéphane Deschênes of Bare Oaks. He runs a first-class place.
Read this book. (And several of the others on that page.)
You are dipping your toe into a deep career field. Good luck.
Radical Candor, great book!
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857
An anarchist physicist from UCI who was fired for writing an amazing book about the subservient role of the professional to oppressive hierarchies and institutions. Chomsky signed a letter with a bunch of other intellectuals supporting him. Howard Zinn said he's been "waiting a long time for someone to write this book" and Thomas Frank gave him a shout-out in his book Listen Liberal (also a good one http://listenliberal.com/).
This sounds like a good recipe to become the next Mark Cuban.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
I just read the chapter Cabin fever in the book Remote: Office Not Required that give some great insights in how to deal with this issue. I made some photo's so you can read it: http://imgur.com/a/rh42L
If your university offers a technical writing class that covers resume writing, take it. Heck, take that class even if it doesn't cover resumes - you and your employers will appreciate it.
I own a copy of Land the Tech Job You Love (Amazon), and it covers how to make up a good resume, as well as other generally-good advice. Pretty cheap, and small. Recommended.
It's awesome that you're networking, but are you using those contacts to get informational interviews? If not, read this book and get some advice for people already in the field. BTW, an informational interview is not the same as a job interview.
Volunteering is awesome; I hope you're volunteering in a hospital or something that is applicable to your field.
Two suggestions:
What Color is my Parachute by Richard Bolles
http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2011/dp/158008270X
The Whole Earth Catalog edition from the early 1980s (can be found in many public libraries)
The first book is about figuring out what sort of career you'd find most interesting and engaging. The second is a sampler of the best books on almost every subject under the sun, circa the early 1980s, and is sort of like the parachute book but for life itself.
To clarify, he no longer works in Chicago, but he may be able to give you some tips on how to break into the industry there.
Definitely read up on Informational Interviewing. It'll help your job hunt tremendously. I highly recommend this book.
There's tons of great books and blogs on this topic. The most common phrasing of the ideas is Personal Finance.
This book and it's partner book "Smart Couples Finish Rich" helped me get started.
http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Millionaire-Powerful-One-Step-Finish/dp/0767923820/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
US Money versus Corporation Currency (1912) - Alfred Own Crozier.
Peoples History of the United States. - Howard Zinn
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Spectre of Inverted Totalitarianism. - Sheldon S Wolin.
The Nazi Hydra In America -- New America's right wing politicians are plunging the country into a fascist police state - Glen Yeadon & John Hawkins.
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America - Chris Hedges.
The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism - Robert A Brady
The Comming of the American Behemoth: THe origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940 - Michael Joseph Roberto (2018)
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back - Thom Hartmann (2010)
The Holy Reich - Nazi Conceptions of Christianity 1919-1945 - Richard Steigmann-Gall (2004)
That should give you someplace to start to form your own opinion.
I also STRONGLY recommended memorizing and applying reason against fallacies, especially appeal to prejudice and all of them on http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com AND https://yourbias.is
> (Barring Enron scale fuckuppery)
Sometimes management can even mess up nearly that bad and get away with it.
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty is also a fun political game theory book.
And also, you say that running any business remotely is highly unlikely. May I refer you to this wonderful book: https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501
And do you ever imagine that all your experience and degrees may actually work to stunt your thinking? That you've seen things done a certain way for so long, maybe you find it difficult to imagine that things could be done differently, for similar, if not better results?
I follow them for the lolz. hahahaha
Hmm reading material ya? biasanya bible-nya day trader kalo ga ini ya ini. Tapi pendekatan investasi gue agak beda, karena gue domisili di Eropa. Gue invest di ETF karena gue taro buat dana pensiun. Nah kalo tertarik sama index investing monggo ngikut cult-nya John Bogle disini dan websitenya disini. Karena gue pake ETF di Eropa, pelajaran pertama gue dapat dari sini. Entah seberapa relevan sih buat kasus indonesia.
"Radical Candor" by Kim Scott
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250103509
The richest man in Babylon by George Clason
For those interested in this kind of thing, I think David Einhorn's book is excellent.
It tells a story of when Einhorn realized a company was more-or-less fraudulent, and his fight against the SEC and the company to release the truth. He had the incentive for this fight because of his short position. Einhorn was ultimately proven correct, and the company collapsed. The book is equally interesting, informative and infuriating.
https://www.amazon.com/Fooling-People-Complete-Updated-Epilogue/dp/0470481544
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team, NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html
One-On-One Meetings - https://getlighthouse.com/blog/how-to-start-one-on-ones-your-teams/
Growing Great Employees, Erika Andersen - http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Great-Employees-Extraordinary-Performers/dp/1591841909 (though I hate the stupid comparisons with plants)
The Year Without Pants, Scott Berkun - http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633
The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber http://www.amazon.com/The-E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses/dp/0887307280
You should read Remote, it has just the insights you're looking for.
When there is disagreement/conflict within an organization, there can be several options for the minority (other than violence)
Secession has a negative connotation (for understandable reasons), but it shouldn't. The threat of Exit needs to be there, it's healthy for the entire organization if a minority isn't trapped and has the Exit card to play if needed.
Designer here. This book has been fantastic for me.
Radical Candor
If you you're looking for help learning yourself, I'd recommend starting with the following books:
From there look for topics in the specific type of business you are looking to run or the type of markets you're interested in.
Good read here Amazon sells it! https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484
We love Asana as well, it's the tool we use the most on a daily basis.
So if you want to be fully distributed, there are various factors you need to comply with - time zone differences, different languages, cultures, religions, styles of work. While some of these could be unified, it's often hard to convince a European to work US business hours every single day. Different holidays also matter - you have to maintain a calendar of all national or religious holidays since location/religion could define these.
We do several things to keep a healthy remote work environment.
There's much more that I could share, but I'd like to refer to three books that you will probably enjoy:
If there's anything in particular you'd like to know, I'll cover it as well.
Manager's Path is a really good book about different levels of management, and Debugging Teams is a series of examples from the author's histories that can easily apply to your new position.
> But, with the first guy, do any of you know of any sources for the conditions of the Gilded Age that this person might accept as not being "socialist propaganda?"
We're going through a third Gilded Age. The first was the times of the railroads when divide and conquer were the plots of the day. The Courts thought that corporations were people. That being said, I know people have a problem with it, but Thom Hartmann, did research in how corporations became people. I've read Unequal Protection which helped to explain the Gilded Age in detail.
The second Gilded Age occurred in the 1920s to 1930s and the SCOTUS decisions of that time which were heavily conservative and undemocratic. I'm weak on references for it but I would suggest the PBS documentary "Slavery by another name"
And for the third Gilded Age? Well... We're living it.
Becoming the Evidence Based Manager by Gary Latham
Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Dying for a Paycheck by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Evidence Based Management by Denise Rousseau and Eric Barends
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
Work Rules by Laszlo Bock (of course)
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And more that are actually based on solid evidence, not stories (sorry, I mean case studies. Same thing).
https://www.amazon.ca/Revolution-Valley-Paperback-Insanely-Great/dp/1449316247
is worth looking at.
I can recommend Scott Berkuns book about his experience in a distributed team: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com-Future/dp/1118660633
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857
If you want to answer this one seriously, this book has several exercises for finding your purpose in life, which may just work out for you. At $11, I think it's worth the risk.
Folklore.org is an amazing site that collects stories written by the original Macintosh team. Many, if not all, of the stories were also collected in a book titled Revolution in the Valley. A few of the best stories: I'll Be Your Best Friend, It's The Moustache That Matters, Reality Distortion Field, Calculator Construction Set
Here's the Wikipedia page about DONKEY.BAS, and down in the external links section of that article is a way to try the game for yourself.
I suggest you give this a read
By what metric can you determine when bad press is warranted and not a temper-tantrum?
Are you telling me that no one is allowed to criticize anything a company does as long as they can choose not to buy that company's product? Do you know no economic theory?
I honestly can't tell if you are trolling or not.
In the case that you are not, here is a quick read on pertinent economic theory: http://www.amazon.com/Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Responses-Organizations/dp/0674276604
To put it one way: the primary two options customers have to give a company feedback is exit (not buying the product) and voice (bad press). Exit prevents them from receiving money they already would have received, and voice prevents them from getting new customers.
It is actually much more complicated (and more like a symbiosis) but it should be easy enough to see that voice is a perfectly valid form of expressing discontent with a company's product.
Contribute to open source. Create something of your own, and contribute to other projects. Since you are basically self taught and you are going for your first gig, conveying to prospective employers that you care about design, testing, and that you are not a cowboy will help. Read and understand books like Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. Also, don't be a one trick pony. Tackling JavaScript could be a next logical step. Needless to say, all your open source and projects you demonstrate should have good test suites.
Learn about the non-technical stuff as well. I think Land the Tech Job You Love is great, and you probably want to look into Cracking the Coding Interview as a starting point for learning more about algorithms and data structures. Upcase is another great resource for beginning/intermediate Ruby programmers who want to up their game. Start solving challenges on e.g. codewars.com.
You can buy his ebook which is just an aggregation of his blog posts. Super cheap but fun read:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
Before making any crazy decisions I would suggest reading "Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job" by Jonathan Acuff. It's not a bad read and excellent advise.
Here's the amazon link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982986270
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I'm also living in SAT, just turned 28, and a making about that after taxes, but I'm socking $1500 away a month for a down payment on a house (Dec 2016), and then I'll sock the same away for a loaded Tesla Model 3 (Oct 2019), and then again for a set of solar panels for the house (Jun 2021). And maybe after that I'll get a motorcycle.
Along the way, I will probably find a girl, date, get married, maybe even have a kid (it is about 5 years in my whole plan...), but the point is I've got a plan, I've got goals, I have a purpose for the money I'm earning.
Again, this is also assuming I will never get a raise, and I haven't added in the money I'm investing for retirement, that's just the fun stuff. So, have no fear, you can live below your income, and it will pay off.
EDIT:
Along with the books already mentioned, I would highly recommend Jon Acuff's books. I've read:
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Both were very encouraging and helped me think about the work that I do do in a different light. He has a new one, called Do Over [amzn] which sounds like it might be right up your alley as well.
You may also look into Dave Ramsey's materials. A lot of people have heard of his Financial Peace University, but he has a follow-up course called The Legacy Journey, which deals with the things you're looking toward, having security and freedom in retirement (whenever that might come) and leaving a legacy for your children.
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[Fooling Some of the People All the Time] (http://www.amazon.com/Fooling-People-Complete-Updated-Epilogue/dp/0470481544) is a really good book on short selling.
[Quantitative Value] (http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Value-Web-Site-Practitioners/dp/1118328078) is a really good book as well.
If you can afford it, [Margin of Safety] (http://www.amazon.com/Margin-Safety-Risk-Averse-Strategies-Thoughtful/dp/0887305105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415645406&sr=1-1&keywords=margin+of+safety) is the holy grail of value investors.
https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/1505339111
Oh yes, I know of your affinity for the Gospel of Nick Corcodilos - the professional recruiter who has a Master's in Cognitive Psychology, but no formal training in organizational development, and it shows in that article by misinterpreting empirical findings and counter with his own biased slant. He even went as far as considering academic research as something of a [bent and corruptable](http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/whoisnick.htm#about "The headhunter") way of thinking and investigation. Ironically, OP, an individual who believes that no one book should outline and define a practice or industry, is using this one book to vehemethly defend a narrow viewpoint of someone who is not intimately involved with HR on any level. I was surprised that OP did not cite a chapter from his own book as a plug, Land the Tech Job You Love (Now available on Amazon for the low, low price of 16.36. Get your copy today!)
In the actual article itself, Corcodilos addressed several domains to build the argument that exit interviews are simply antiquated and dehumanizing. He constructed the argument in a manner similar to a propaganda, using emotional appeal to critique findings that are not based on subjective observations from which to draw reaching conclusions.
I gave you a link, I'm not going to name the thousands of companies that actively donate money to candidates. I don't' feel like "discussing" anything since you made such a hugely false statement.
>And lastly, political speech close to an election is possibly the most important form of free speech. Besides, we are constantly bombarded by endorsements from tons of major corporations anyway. If you are oppose the Citizens United ruling it necessarily means you feel comfortable with the government banning some speech. That means no more Paul Krugman op eds from the NYT during election season and no more HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Advertisement speech is not afforded the same rights as free speech furthermore Free speech as it stood was the rights of individuals not corporations. It's a bastardization of those rights that has allowed for much of the politics of today.
>I know what the common retort is, we've all seen it here before. Its, "individuals have free speech, not corporations." To this I have two things to say. 1) Corporations are a protectorate and creation of the government. They are granted special limited liability status by our federal government, so if you have a problem with corporations per se, then you should rightfully have a problem with government shielding them. 2) Corporations, insofar as free speech is concerned, are nothing more than the collective voice of the people who own that corporation. If I own a video production corporation produces a movie that paints Mormons in a negative light, should the government censor my film because it may affect Mitt Romney's campaign?
The fears concerning the Citizens United Ruling are completely unfounded. In most states, the ruling changes nothing that hasn't already been going on.
See my previous comment about that. For further reading .. here
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Again you have a limited grasp on free speech rights. I assume you're unfamiliar with advertisement rights vs art since you brought up movies. You're also not familiar with free speech in regards to the a captive audience either I suppose?
regardless, The biggest issue everybody should have is foreign influence in elections, they're not allowed under our current system.
Since most of these companies have decided to become multinational. Their money is essentially tainted by foreign interests. Thus should negate any multinational companies from participating in our election process.
You may disagree which is fine but it's still the law, and I don't see how it's not being enforced.