August 11, 2015 at 12:08Intrepid programmer: first-hand life hacking
Hello, habrozhiteli!
We have a new book by Igor Savchuk
Making a programming career is much harder than just being one. There is little specific mentality, the ability to think in an abstract, developed logic, the main thing is to realize that work is not only a way of making money. Not so many people meet all the conditions, and it is precisely this minority that will be discussed. Here is a collection of frank conversations with famous programmers, system administrators and other IT specialists. The heroes of the book profess different views, belong to different social groups, can operate with millions of dollars, be heroes of glamorous parties or simple office workaholic programmers. These people are united by the ability to use their enthusiasm, passion and love for the profession as a lever to achieve fundamentally new heights in the development of themselves and their business.
There is a well-known joke in the American business environment that the English word job (“work”) is actually an acronym, which stands for just over broke (“a little better than bankruptcy”). Business likes to poke fun at its employees, there's nothing to be done.
Unfortunately, for most ordinary people it’s true - you need to live “to pay your bills”. There is nothing bad or shameful about it, and besides, endless “rat races” appeal to many ambitious and confident people in their youth. These people are constantly in sight, strive to achieve more, work late, and are guided by the now-popular “grab and run” strategy. The Modus operandi for this whole “whirl” is the ultimate and only compensation for all the efforts spent, the opportunity to earn “good money”.
If we talk about the IT industry, in which there has recently been a large flow of random people who have heard about the high salaries of IT people, then this is a real disaster. Such a person accidental for the profession will look for workarounds and wonderful silver bullets in the form of powerful books and courses, having mastered which, he thinks, he will be able to become a true programmer in order to finally start raking money with a shovel. The bad news for stray IT cowboys is that making a programmer’s career is a lot harder than just being one. It will require a specific mindset, a rare introvert and the ability to think abstractly, a developed logical apparatus and much more, including a cast-iron fifth point.
But what do we know about a minority that does otherwise?
It is about this "eccentric" minority that the book will discuss. The heroes of the interview can profess different views and have different social statuses, be dollar millionaires, well-known and public people, as well as simple office workaholic programmers, but they all share something in common. Most of the interviews in the book are the stories of real IT professionals whose work is based on the principles of non-material motivation and denial of the already familiar motive of “making money” as the central dominant of human activity.
It is about using your enthusiasm, passion and love for the profession as a lever to achieve fundamentally new heights in the development of yourself and your business (even if it is hired programming). In numerous interviews and life situations, I try to show with real examples: this motivation works against the odds and brings the joy of creativity to our plastic office life.
I did not rely on communicating exclusively with famous people (although a couple of heroes from the list are certainly world famous), but I tried to select the interlocutors according to their degree of “geekiness” and “driveability”, so that through their inspiring example I would make the reader at least think how the maximum is to look at the familiar world of IT with different eyes, thereby prompting you to rise to a qualitatively different step in your professional growth, firmly riding the formula “just for fun”.
With a huge amount of motivational literature that quite successfully pedals the topic of a positive way of thinking, in Russia there is practically not a single similar book entirely devoted to IT. I am amazed that with today's number of success stories in the IT field, where many IT Jedi change countries and companies like gloves (earning millions of dollars in passing), they still have not become heroes of epic books telling about them first-hand adventures (the few success stories of figures of the caliber of Durov, Zuckenberg and Jobs do not count). Despite the huge interest in the “IT” subculture, primarily from the youth’s side, there’s not even an attempt to give the floor to the ordinary computer technician, and this despite the fact that the success of modern IT people has already become a byword,
The second aspect of any motivating literature (except for the correction of the usual way of thinking to a new and “successful” through striking examples of fate, enticing) is the emphasis on action. And this book is not an exception - it contains a lot of practical tips for interviewing and finding effective development vectors packaged in an informal everyday format: “advice from IT specialists for IT specialists” (this is mainly devoted to Part II).
In conclusion of this introduction, as the main conclusion of the book, I want to wish the reader the following: realize your interest, perfectionism or excitement with maximum benefit, while the fix idea, as they say, is “on fire”, and youth allows “mountains to be rolled up”, working around the clock mode. It is sincere passion and unbridled passion that become the very “critical mass" that allows a miracle to happen in your life.
Having completed his studies in a special class of English, Igor Savchuk graduated from the physics and physics and served in the Airborne Forces. He worked as a programmer for more than 9 years, in recent years he worked as a “system administrator with extended authority” (DevOps). Currently, having left programming in the past, he works as an IT journalist and blogger. Its author’s "tech blog" was included in the Top-100 of the most popular standalone-blogs of the Runet according to the Yandex "Blog Rating".
You can familiarize yourself with the book in more detail on the website of the publishing house.
Table of contents
Excerpt
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We have a new book by Igor Savchuk
Making a programming career is much harder than just being one. There is little specific mentality, the ability to think in an abstract, developed logic, the main thing is to realize that work is not only a way of making money. Not so many people meet all the conditions, and it is precisely this minority that will be discussed. Here is a collection of frank conversations with famous programmers, system administrators and other IT specialists. The heroes of the book profess different views, belong to different social groups, can operate with millions of dollars, be heroes of glamorous parties or simple office workaholic programmers. These people are united by the ability to use their enthusiasm, passion and love for the profession as a lever to achieve fundamentally new heights in the development of themselves and their business.
There is a well-known joke in the American business environment that the English word job (“work”) is actually an acronym, which stands for just over broke (“a little better than bankruptcy”). Business likes to poke fun at its employees, there's nothing to be done.
Unfortunately, for most ordinary people it’s true - you need to live “to pay your bills”. There is nothing bad or shameful about it, and besides, endless “rat races” appeal to many ambitious and confident people in their youth. These people are constantly in sight, strive to achieve more, work late, and are guided by the now-popular “grab and run” strategy. The Modus operandi for this whole “whirl” is the ultimate and only compensation for all the efforts spent, the opportunity to earn “good money”.
If we talk about the IT industry, in which there has recently been a large flow of random people who have heard about the high salaries of IT people, then this is a real disaster. Such a person accidental for the profession will look for workarounds and wonderful silver bullets in the form of powerful books and courses, having mastered which, he thinks, he will be able to become a true programmer in order to finally start raking money with a shovel. The bad news for stray IT cowboys is that making a programmer’s career is a lot harder than just being one. It will require a specific mindset, a rare introvert and the ability to think abstractly, a developed logical apparatus and much more, including a cast-iron fifth point.
But what do we know about a minority that does otherwise?
It is about this "eccentric" minority that the book will discuss. The heroes of the interview can profess different views and have different social statuses, be dollar millionaires, well-known and public people, as well as simple office workaholic programmers, but they all share something in common. Most of the interviews in the book are the stories of real IT professionals whose work is based on the principles of non-material motivation and denial of the already familiar motive of “making money” as the central dominant of human activity.
It is about using your enthusiasm, passion and love for the profession as a lever to achieve fundamentally new heights in the development of yourself and your business (even if it is hired programming). In numerous interviews and life situations, I try to show with real examples: this motivation works against the odds and brings the joy of creativity to our plastic office life.
I did not rely on communicating exclusively with famous people (although a couple of heroes from the list are certainly world famous), but I tried to select the interlocutors according to their degree of “geekiness” and “driveability”, so that through their inspiring example I would make the reader at least think how the maximum is to look at the familiar world of IT with different eyes, thereby prompting you to rise to a qualitatively different step in your professional growth, firmly riding the formula “just for fun”.
Why was this book written at all?
With a huge amount of motivational literature that quite successfully pedals the topic of a positive way of thinking, in Russia there is practically not a single similar book entirely devoted to IT. I am amazed that with today's number of success stories in the IT field, where many IT Jedi change countries and companies like gloves (earning millions of dollars in passing), they still have not become heroes of epic books telling about them first-hand adventures (the few success stories of figures of the caliber of Durov, Zuckenberg and Jobs do not count). Despite the huge interest in the “IT” subculture, primarily from the youth’s side, there’s not even an attempt to give the floor to the ordinary computer technician, and this despite the fact that the success of modern IT people has already become a byword,
The second aspect of any motivating literature (except for the correction of the usual way of thinking to a new and “successful” through striking examples of fate, enticing) is the emphasis on action. And this book is not an exception - it contains a lot of practical tips for interviewing and finding effective development vectors packaged in an informal everyday format: “advice from IT specialists for IT specialists” (this is mainly devoted to Part II).
In conclusion of this introduction, as the main conclusion of the book, I want to wish the reader the following: realize your interest, perfectionism or excitement with maximum benefit, while the fix idea, as they say, is “on fire”, and youth allows “mountains to be rolled up”, working around the clock mode. It is sincere passion and unbridled passion that become the very “critical mass" that allows a miracle to happen in your life.
about the author
Having completed his studies in a special class of English, Igor Savchuk graduated from the physics and physics and served in the Airborne Forces. He worked as a programmer for more than 9 years, in recent years he worked as a “system administrator with extended authority” (DevOps). Currently, having left programming in the past, he works as an IT journalist and blogger. Its author’s "tech blog" was included in the Top-100 of the most popular standalone-blogs of the Runet according to the Yandex "Blog Rating".
You can familiarize yourself with the book in more detail on the website of the publishing house.
Table of contents
Excerpt
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