Introducing The Effective Engineer — the only book designed specifically for today's software engineers, based on extensive interviews with engineering leaders at top tech companies, and packed with hundreds of actionable habits and techniques to accelerate your career.

Plus, the Effort to Impact companion guide, a step-by-step guide that walks you through how to build a system to increase your impact week-over-week. And The Tactical Toolkit, a collection of tactics, checklists, and questions to help you be more effective at the most common engineering activities.

E dmond Lau is an engineer at Quip, where he’s building a productivity suite to make teams more effective.

Previously, he was an early engineer at Quora, where he led the engineering team on user growth and built the onboarding and mentoring programs for new engineers. Before Quora, he worked as the tech lead of analytics at Ooyala and as an engineer on search quality at Google. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Computer Science at MIT.

He lives in Palo Alto, CA. Visit him at www.theeffectiveengineer.com, where he shares more lessons, stories, and habits to help engineers be more productive and effective.

He’s passionate about helping engineering teams build strong cultures, and his writing has been featured on Forbes, Slate, Fortune, Inc., and Times. He’s guest lectured at MIT and Stanford, and he also speaks at startups about build- ing great engineering culture.

The Effective Engineer is his first book. He’d love to get your thoughts and feedback over Twitter (@edmondlau) or over email (ed- mond@theeffectiveengineer.com).