I'm about to ask you to do something for me that I will never see if I can possibly help it. I'm going to go out of my way to try to make sure I never see it. An invisible gift is what I'm asking for. Let me explain!
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When I started writing a book I made my wife a promise: I am NOT going to read the reviews 😂
This was a HARD WON PROMISE. I'm a community-based researcher and I live and breathe feedback and dialogue so this was an enormous choice for me but listen, I also believe in reader safe spaces and information ecosystems and, uh, I study mismeasurement so I understand the power of staring at tiny little star ratings and I'm just not gonna do that on the review platforms specifically. Self-care.
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The Psychology of Software Teams made it to hackernews today (!!!) which invoked the oldest law, the original magic: Do Not Read the Comments. I am not! I have made a rare and holy peace with this.
But it also has got me thinking about *signal*
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I see and feel the signal on this book, exactly the same as the signal I felt when I first thought to myself, "people in software DO care about psychology, I know they do, because they ask me psychology questions, and I'm going to ignore every loud voice saying this job doesn't exist and invent it"
We are inventing the presence of this book, right now, together
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When I wrote my book proposal, you know what it included?
Reviews counts on external places like goodreads and amazon for the major comps my book was being compared to.
I sat with one of the editors who was considering my book and watched him pull up the *raw number of reviews* for other software leadership and team culture books, and I watched him startle as he realized oh, this is a real, serious category. Totally new possibilities unrolled because of that moment
