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theF00l 63 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Being ambitious and being a dad

Surprised to hear that an O'Reilly book will net you less than a month of work for a SWE in the US and some parts of Europe.

But I guess the reward is not the money but the expertise and signal.

FuriouslyAdrift 63 days ago | [–]

Here's an authors account of royalties received from the no. 2 best selling O'Reilly book at the time (around $500k over 6 years)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-wort...

geodel 63 days ago | [–]

That plus, online, in-person training opportunities.

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