Get the Field Guide : How to Be Taken Seriously
A e-book field guide for software engineers. Free for paid subscribers.
Most engineers are good at the technical part. That’s how they got the job.
The thing that decides what happens next, whether you get the interesting work, the influence, the promotion, or whether you watch someone less technical pass you by, is almost never technical. It’s the stuff nobody teaches you. How to write a doc people actually read. How to push back without burning trust. How to handle the conversations you’ve been avoiding. How to be taken seriously by the people who make the decisions.
I wrote a field guide on it.
How to Be Taken Seriously: A Field Guide for Software Engineers is the playbook I wish someone had handed me earlier. Covers the parts of a career that determine whether you keep moving or get stuck. Written from a decade of managing engineers, coaching them through the same hard moments, and watching the patterns repeat.
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The field guide on signup
Weekly worksheets and short video walkthroughs to go with each article
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What’s free, and will always be free
The weekly article. Every week, no paywall, no archive that locks up after a month. If you just want the read, the free tier is the whole thing.
About me
Ryan Murphy. Former Engineering Manager at Yelp. ~60,000 followers on LinkedIn. Speaker at CTO Craft. Two-plus years on the programming committee for LeadDev. Author of six courses on Dometrain. Creator of EM Accelerator. I’ve coached engineers from junior to staff to director, and I write the things I now tell them.