Book Review: Being Geek

A very interesting blog post turned book written by Michael Lopp more commonly known by his online persona Rands. Rands writes a fairly popular blog called Rands In Repose. His blog covers advice and stories about life, work, and life in technical work.

The content of this book is a series of stories that are easy to read and digest. The content is concise, with a lesson to be had in each chapter. The book covers scenarios across the entire timeline of someone in the technical field. Rands covers things such as finding a job and the interview process managing large teams and architecting projects

Due to the book being a compilation of blog posts it’s very easy to pick up and read a chapter or two, or even skip over ones that don’t fully apply to you. Overall I think this book is super easy to read and has quite a lot of excellent stories with lessons. These lessons can be taken into our professional day to day, to hopefully improve our lives.

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