Chapters built on an earlier post making the same argument:
- Why everything should have a URL → "Why URLs?" (2015) + "Expose process through URLs" (2014)
- Speak like a human → "Write corporate blog posts as a human" (2015)
- Optimize for developer happiness → "On stickers and optimizing for happiness" (2015)
- The zen of open and async work → "The zen of GitHub" (2015)
- Lead like an engineer → "Manage like an engineer" (2023)
- Rethinking management for remote teams → "Deprecate management" (2012) + "Cathedral–bazaar management" (2023)
- Retool your documents → "Word vs. Markdown" (2014) + "We've been trained to make paper" (2012)
- The etiquette of issues and pull requests → "Types of pull requests" (2015) + "Pull requests are a form of documentation" (2023)
- Showing colleagues they're valued → "Three easy ways to show employees you appreciate them" (2017)
- Choosing the right collaboration tools → "Tools of the trade" (2020)
- What I wish I knew before going remote → "Eight things I wish I knew my first week at GitHub" (2016)
- Career conversations → "The brag doc" (2026)
- Intro to software development for non-technical roles → "GitHub for non-technical roles" (2023)
And chapters that are near-verbatim descendants of a named post:
- Leaders show their work → "Leaders show their work" (2022)
- Work loudly → "Work loudly" (2026)
- Meetings are a point of escalation → "Meetings are a point of escalation" (2023)
- The Andon principle for knowledge work → "Transparency & collaboration is the Andon of knowledge production" (2023)
- Engaging with dissent → "Dissenting voices" (2024)
- How to 1:1 → "One-on-one playbook" (2026)
- Agentic workflows → "Agentic workflows" (2026)
- Why you should work asynchronously → "Why async" (2022)