RADAR
The book. Publishing Q4 2026, and the pre-order is open.
$49, posted in the United States. Nothing is added at checkout.
Outside the United States, the book is on Amazon the day it publishes.
What arrives, and when.
What you have, what you can say about it, where you say it, and the close.
The first part works out what your career holds and how clearly you hold it. That is Sense: Recognize and Assess, ten frequencies, and a clarity level on each thing you find.
The second part turns that into words. The resume lines, the profile, the bios, and the answer you give out loud when somebody asks the first question.
The third part is where you put it: the ten channels, who is on each one, and what a good ask sounds like on a route where nobody owes you anything.
Then the close, which is one role, everything aimed at it.
The worksheets are in the book, printed, called by the same names they carry on screen. A reader working from paper and a user working in the product are on the same page without translating.
The method was built and run before it was written down.
The order was method, then software, then book. The worksheets in here are the ones people have been filling in, in the product, which is backwards from how these usually go and was deliberate.
The book has voices in it that are not mine.
The Signal half is about rooms and the people already in them, and I am not the best person alive on every one of those. So practitioners who live on a particular channel wrote that part from inside it.
I wrote the book and designed the method. Contributors wrote or shaped parts of it, and the system is mine to answer for.
Joey de Villa
Contributor · People Who Know You
Senior Developer Advocate at NetFoundry. Author and technical editor at Kodeco, co-author of iOS Apprentice. Runs four of Tampa Bay's largest developer meetups, six thousand members between them.
The networking material in the Signal section. Joey does not theorize about working a room, he runs the rooms, and he has written down what happens in one: how to open, where to stand, how to join a conversation already in progress, and what to do when eye contact is the hard part.
Adapted from his article How to "work the room" at DevRelCon NYC 2026, published on Global Nerdy, July 2026.
Contributors are named for what they contributed and nothing more. Nobody appears here to lend a logo.
FAQ
Do I need the software as well?
No. The book carries the whole method and its worksheets, and three months of RADAR comes with this anyway.
I am not in the United States. Can I get it?
Yes, from Amazon, the day it publishes. The pre-order here posts inside the United States only, so until publication the list is how you hear the moment the Amazon edition is up.
Can I buy the digital edition on its own?
On Amazon, the day it publishes.
When does it arrive?
It is yours the day it publishes. Q4 2026.
Is this a job-hunting book?
No. It is about what your work proves and how clearly you can say it. That is useful when you are looking, and it is the same work whether you are looking or not.
You are buying the method, not a book about it.
The book on publication in Q4 2026, the advanced Rolevelocity features as they go live before then, and three months of RADAR the day it opens.
Outside the United States, join the list. The Amazon edition opens the day the book publishes.
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