Publication of Zoom For Dummies

Book number ten is out. 💥

Jul 22, 2020 1-min read

I'm pleased to announce the publication of my tenth book: Zoom For Dummies.

Read an excerpt here.

Thoughts

Interesting backstory on this one. Given how quickly Zoom exploded, my acquisitions editor was keen on bringing Zoom For Dummies to market quickly.

I was up for the challenge, but there were other moving parts. Specifically, Zoom was rebuilding its security as I was writing the book. (Shoot me if I ever say or write re-architecting. Seriously.) We're not taking about basic UI changes here. To this end, I had to juggle a bunch of balls. #firstworldproblems

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— Phil Simon #BLM (@philsimon) July 25, 2020

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