Joshua Levy

Congrats, @jes_wolfe and team! Great to see an empowering message in a new format. I don't have a daughter but I'm going to recommend it to friends who do.

It's been a privilege working with such incredible eng leaders as this Guide took shape. I've so appreciated the wisdom and experience of @oao84 and @alinelernerllc and many others, and am glad it's now in a form anyone can read. This Guide is not short or simple—but we hope it reflects both the difficulty and importance, for both engineers and managers, of building strong eng teams.

One challenge with a question like this is *it really depends on your job*. Pause and forget. Forget about people’s opinions and what you’re “supposed” to be doing. Also do your best to set aside thoughts of yourself and whether you’re good enough (we all have insecurities and ego needs—it’s called being human—but just set them aside for a minute or two). What is the way you uniquely create...

@bentossell I guess it's all how you want do define "product" versus "book". :) The Guide essentially is like an online book, but a "living" one, where we use GitHub's workflow to make improvements as well as host it. It's also a curated resource list, since it has many links. We could easily make it an e-book, and might do that, but the living version is in many ways more interesting.

This guide is a short but thorough overview of how stock options, RSUs, and taxes work. Our idea was to shed light on an opaque topic by summarizing dozens of blogs and other sources. It aims to help anyone who has or is considering a tech job, but may be of value to founders and hiring managers too. It's free. The format is also important. It's not a blog but an “open source” guide, so it is...