{"id":4161,"date":"2019-05-13T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:59:53","slug":"book-club-engineering-team-doesnt-crazy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/book-club-engineering-team-doesnt-crazy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Book club in our engineering team &#8211; It doesn&#8217;t have to be crazy at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TL;DR<\/h2>\n<p>You can read all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/implemented-book-club-idea-engineering-team\/\">how we implemented our 1st book club<\/a> idea in our engineering team, and in this post, I&#8217;m going to do the same but with a new book. In this short post I&#8217;ll tell you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how we implemented the second book club idea in our engineering team<\/li>\n<li>what book we read<\/li>\n<li>how we liked it,<\/li>\n<li>and share a few learnings, comments and (as I usually do in my book posts) quotes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What book did we read?<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/csI8WsC.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We read the book called <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/30jaVJk\">It Doesn&#8217;t Have to Be Crazy at Work<\/a> by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the Goodreads and Amazon reviewers liked the book.<\/p>\n<p>However, I\u2019m not really sure why, because this is how much we liked (or better said didn\u2019t) the book. So, 4.5\/10 with a max rating of 6 says a lot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/N9ni193.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How did we do it?<\/h2>\n<p>We read it in only three weeks which means it was a really easy read. This comes down to about <code>75 pages per week<\/code>, which amounts to <code>15 pages per work day<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>On average, it took us 2hr and 22 minutes to finish the book, or about <code>9 minutes per work day<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a short post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/math-behind-reading-30-books-per-year\/\">the math behind reading 30 books per year<\/a> in case you&#8217;re interested.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What did we like?<\/h2>\n<p>Even though we didn\u2019t like the book in general, it still had some parts that we liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office hours idea<\/li>\n<li>Stance towards interviews &#8211; and paying for spec work<\/li>\n<li>Company is not a family<\/li>\n<li>Salary negotiation is crap<\/li>\n<li>Calm goodbyes<\/li>\n<li>Fridays off during summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What we didn&#8217;t like<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of the chapters were common sense, and we agreed with them (few mentioned above), but some of the things we just couldn&#8217;t agree with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No goal setting<\/li>\n<li>Not going out of your comfort zone &#8211; promoting mediocrity<\/li>\n<li>It seems like the whole book is an advertisement for them<\/li>\n<li>They support multiple versions<\/li>\n<li>This most probably won\u2019t work for a bigger company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Some quotes<\/h2>\n<p>As usual in my book posts, here are some quotes that we liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We don&#8217;t mind leaving some money on the table, and we don&#8217;t need to squeeze every drop out of the lemon. Those final drops usually taste sour, anyway.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.<\/li>\n<li>Your company is a product. If you want to make the product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating.\u2028<\/li>\n<li>Comparison is the death of joy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Conclusion<\/h1>\n<p>Even though we didn&#8217;t like the book in general, it definitely wasn&#8217;t a total waste of time. We already started with the next book (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Vw1CXY\">Pragmatic Programmer<\/a>), and this time we hope the book to be better.<\/p>\n<p>A question for those that already conducted book clubs in your engineering organizations &#8211; what books did you read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR You can read all about how we implemented our 1st book club idea in our engineering team, and in this post, I&#8217;m going to do the same&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}