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Will Larson: Engineering Executive's Primer (2024, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated)

No bullshit

Broad coverage but still with enough detail and author's experience to be applicable and useful. Recommended if you are considering a CTO-ish role or if you work closely with them and would like to understand them better. It's written from an American perspective and is more relevant for bigger companies, but even for a 40-person startup there's plenty of tips to pick up.

An example of a detail I liked: framing a subset of micromanagement as reminiscing. When something's hard and overwhelming, executives might retreat into some easy work that they used to be good at. It's not second-guessing their reports or insatiable craving for control — it's basically procrastination, and should be dealt with as such.

P.S.: I also really liked how smooth the paper is in this book.