Chamber 🏰 of Tech Secrets # 7+

Introducing the Chamber of Tech Secrets Book Club 🚀

Happy Friday, everyone! This is not your regularly scheduled Chamber of Tech Secrets. Its a special edition to officially introduce and launch the Chamber 🏰 of Tech Secrets Book 📚 Club! 🚀🚀 👏👏

This is a crazy idea I had and the people said “yes”, so let’s give it a try and see how it goes! We have 5 participants already (from a previous Chamber of Tech Secrets mention), so come join the party. 🎉

For those that aren’t interested in participating, fear not. We’ll take all book club discussions offline from here on out, so no need to unsubscribe! 🤣

How it works

For those that are still reading, here’s how its going to work…

• Participation is completely free 🆓 (other than purchasing the book).

• Vote for a book 🗳️. The results of the poll below are binding. Please only vote if you plan to participate.

• Get the book 📚 — you’ll know which one this weekend.

• Registration is open. 📬 Sign up by filling out this brief google form.

• Registration will close 📫 May 5th at midnight PDT.

• Read the book and take notes. 🤓

• Attend the Virtual Meeting 👨‍💻: Tentatively targeting week of June 19th. Date / time to be confirmed via survey once the group is “closed” to maximize for availability. I recognize June is a frequent vacation time and we have multiple timezones to coordinate across, so we’ll work that out.

What book will we read?

I tried to cover a few different types of topics that would be broadly applicable.

Links:

• Scaling Up - building successful organizations

• How Innovation Works - innovation

• Team Topologies - building successful organizations

• The 100 Page Machine Learning Book - the technical route, learn more about ML which is all the rage right now

• Outlive - the wild card that has nothing to do with tech, but that I plan to read anyway

I scrapped Staff Engineer’s Path for the 100 Page Machine Learning Book… but don’t have it for the photo

Rules of Engagement

To have a great discussion that is mutually beneficial we’ll play by the following rules:

• I will moderate.

• We’ll commit to reading the book.

• We’ll commit to sharing our views (but mostly listening is okay too).

• We’ll ask questions about things we don’t understand because we’re here to learn.

• We’ll make some new friends.

• We’re here to learn, not persuade.

• We’ll follow Chatham House Rules: Individual / company anonymity will be protected but free use of ideas discussed.

• Anyone is welcome.

• No selling. ;)

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Have a great weekend!