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Reading & Bookshelf

Books that have shaped my thinking across distributed systems, startups, philosophy, and engineering craft.

The Lean Startup

By Eric Ries
Completed
Reading Progress:100%

“A blueprint for rapid iteration and validate-first architectures.”

Entrepreneurship

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By Martin Kleppmann
Reading
Reading Progress:48%

“Mastering the trade-offs of partitioning, replication schemas, and transactional boundaries.”

Engineering

Crafting Interpreters

By Robert Nystrom
Reading
Reading Progress:25%

“Building a tree-walk interpreter from scratch, learning lexical analysis and scoping.”

Programming

Zero to One

By Peter Thiel
Completed
Reading Progress:100%

“The engineering perspective of monopoly-building and proprietary leverage.”

Entrepreneurship

Black Hat Python

By Justin Seitz
Reading
Reading Progress:10%

“Writing network sniffers and basic post-exploitation payloads offline.”

Cybersecurity