© Michael Lopp 2021
M. LoppManaging Humanshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7116-2_1

1. Don’t Be a Prick

Be a human
Michael Lopp1  
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Los Gatos, CA, USA
 

The beauty of writing on the Web is that there really is no plan. I have the luxury to mentally fumble about with any topic. Over the years, those topics have focused on engineering management, and with the publication of each article, I increasingly received the email asking, “Where’s the book?” Yeah, so, I’d always wanted to publish a book, but there’s a problem. What’s the pitch? Be a good manager? Zzzzzzzzz. I needed a compelling truth that elegantly tied all of my reposings together.

Flash back to the middle of the late-90s dot-com implosion. We, the merry crew of a failing startup, are drinking… ...

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