Books
2026
- AI EngineeringreadingChip Huyen
The book I hand to engineers who ask where to start — evals get a whole chapter because they deserve one.
- Working in PublicNadia Eghbal
Explained the economics of the building-in-public thing I was already doing on instinct.
- Le Petit PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
The first book I finished entirely in French. Yes, it's a children's book. It still counts.
2025
- Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann
Reread it the year everything became a retrieval problem — the chapters on indexes aged into a RAG manual.
- Deep WorkCal Newport
Half obvious, half life-changing; the trick is nobody can tell you which half applies to you.
2024
- The Pragmatic ProgrammerDavid Thomas & Andrew Hunt
The advice survived the AI shift better than most of my stack did.