Orosz: Pragmatic Engineer newsletter posts double as serialized book chapters
Gergely Orosz · Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) · Nov 17, 2022 · at 31:45
Gergely Orosz discusses his strategy for writing his comprehensive engineering career guide by drafting its material through weekly newsletter editions.
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“I had the sneaky idea. Of, hey, what if I wrote this book where I kind of write some posts that will be part of the book, and then the book will just kind of come together partially. And I, I've kind of been doing that. I haven't been telling people, but some of the posts are going to be, not, not, not exactly, but they're the ideas there.”
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