Praise for Being Geek;Dedication;Preface; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments;A CAREER PLAYBOOK; Chapter 1: How to Win; 1.1 A System Thinker; 1.2 People Are Messy; 1.3 A System of Improvisation; 1.4 A Career Blueprint; 1.5 A Collection of Moments; Chapter 2: A List of Three; 2.1 Technical Direction; 2.2 Growth; 2.

3 Delivery; 2.4 Simplifying the Infinite; Chapter 3: The Itch; 3.1 Are You Answering the Phone?; 3.2 Bright and Shiny; Chapter 4: The Sanity Check; 4.1 Stalk Your Future Job; 4.2 Initial Tuning; 4.3 The Close; Chapter 5: The Nerves; 5.1 Question Types; 5.

2 The Answer Process; 5.3 The Confidence of Knowing a Thing; Chapter 6: The Button; 6.1 Creatures and Structure; 6.2 Interview Creatures; 6.3 A Fresh Perspective; Chapter 7: The Business; 7.1 You Are the Business; 7.2 Pre-Game; 7.3 The Swag; 7.

4 Negotiating Roles; 7.5 Meh;DECONSTRUCTING MANAGEMENT; Chapter 8: The Culture Chart; 8.1 Ninety Days; 8.2 Bridge; 8.3 Detecting Culture; 8.4 Culture Definers; 8.5 Game Over; Chapter 9: Managing Managers; 9.1 A Management Assessment; 9.

2 The Essential Elements; 9.3 The Loop; Chapter 10: The Issue with the Doof; 10.1 On Experience; 10.2 Up; 10.3 Partial Information; 10.4 Beware the Doof; 10.5 Everything; Chapter 11: The Leaper; 11.1 On Excuses; 11.

2 On Delivery; 11.3 Say Something Real; Chapter 12: The Enemy; 12.1 Management Transformations; 12.2 The M Word; Chapter 13: The Impossible; 13.1 A Hint of an Insane Plan; 13.2 Skin in the Game; 13.3 The Importance of Respect; 13.4 What He Really Wants; Chapter 14: Knee Jerks; 14.

1 One Eighth of a Second; 14.2 The Jerks; 14.3 Stages of Jerk; Chapter 15: A Deep Breath; 15.1 Sigh; Chapter 16: Gaming the System; 16.1 An Entertaining System; 16.2 The Whiteboard Game; Chapter 17: Managing Werewolves; 17.1 A Dangerous Scenario; 17.2 People Lie, Some Are Evil, Others Just Want to Screw You; 17.

3 This Isn''t Role Playing; This Is Life or Death; 17.4 We Can''t Let the Werewolves Win; Chapter 18: BAB; 18.1 On the Topic of Trust; 18.2 The Second Staff Meeting; Chapter 19: Your People; 19.1 Share What You Build; 19.2 You Tell Stories; Chapter 20: Wanted; 20.1 The Requisition Situation; 20.2 Deliberate Want; 20.

3 Hire for Your Career; Chapter 21: The Toxic Paradox; 21.1 Big Fat Toxic Assumptions; 21.2 Go Team!; 21.3 A Toxic Paradox; 21.4 Everyone Is an Adjustment; Chapter 22: The Pond; 22.1 The Unspoken Royal We; 22.2 Do You Mean It?; 22.3 Another Pond;YOUR DAILY TOOLKIT; Chapter 23: The Nerd Handbook; 23.

1 Understanding Your Nerd; 23.2 Advanced Nerd Tweakage; 23.3 The Next High; Chapter 24: The Taste of the Day; 24.1 The New Gig; 24.2 The Taste of the Day; Chapter 25: The Trickle List; 25.1 Trickle Creation; 25.2 The Trickle Process; 25.3 Structured Improvisation; Chapter 26: The Crisis and the Creative; 26.

1 A Spectrum for Everything; 26.2 A Personal Model; Chapter 27: The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools; 27.1 The Foamy Rules; 27.2 An Evolving Foaminess; Chapter 28: Up to Nothing; 28.1 An Essential Exercise in Inactivity; 28.2 Up to Nothing; 28.3 Don''t Look for It; Chapter 29: How to Not Throw Up; 29.1 Not Throwing Up Is a Two-Phase Process; 29.

2 Fret; Chapter 30: Out Loud; 30.1 Presentation or Speech?; 30.2 The Unforgivable Mistake; 30.3 The Disaster; 30.4 Reduction; 30.5 Presentation Punctuation; 30.6 Something for Their Pocket; Chapter 31: Bits, Features, and Truth; 31.1 That Damned Triangle; 31.

2 Let the Negotiation Begin; It''s About the Debate; Chapter 32: The Reveal; 32.1 Three Phases; 32.2 Three Alphas; 32.3 The Holy Shit Event Horizon;YOUR NEXT GIG; Chapter 33: The Screw-Me Scenario; 33.1 You Might Be Lying; 33.2 A Rubber Stamp Affair; 33.3 No Guilt, No Doubts, No Fear; 33.4 Game On; 33.

5 The Unforgivable Spin; 33.6 A Screw-Me Detection Policy; Chapter 34: No Surprises; 34.1 Show Me the Money; 34.2 The Permanence of the Written; Chapter 35: A Deliberate Career; 35.1 Three Choices; 35.2 A Complete Opportunity Move; Chapter 36: The Curse of the Silicon Valley; 36.1 Apprenticeship; 36.2 On Language; 36.

3 The Curse; 36.4 Geeks Gone Mainstream; Chapter 37: A Disclosure; 37.1 Management Is a Total Career Restart; 37.2 You Go to a Lot of Meetings; 37.3 You Are a Communication Hub; 37.4 Abstraction and Filtering; 37.5 You Will Be a Multilingual Translator; 37.6 Drama Everywhere; 37.

7 Context Switcher; 37.8 Say No; 37.9 Say Yes; 37.10 Trust So You Can Scale; Chapter 38: Mind the Gap; 38.1 The Gaps; 38.2 A Matter of Perspective; Chapter 39: The Exodus; 39.1 This Sucks; 39.2 Which Wave?; Chapter 40: Bad News About Your Bright Future; 40.

1 What''s Next; 40.2 Biased by the Now; 40.3 An Uncomfortable Ending; Hurry; You''re in a Hurry; The Rules of Back Alley Bridge; Preparing for Back Alley Bridge; Rules of Play;Colophon;.