Self-publishing Staff Engineer.

After I published An Elegant Puzzle, I consolidated my notes into What I learned writing a book. That was my first book writing and publishing experience, and I learned a great deal. When I started working on Staff Engineer, I sort of knew what I wanted to do, but because I ended up self-publishing, I ended up learning at least as much as with my first book.

There are a bunch of great articles on writing technical books out there like The Economics of Writing a Technical Book, Writing a book: i...