📖 2025 Book Reviews 📖 > Fundamentals of Data Engineering - O'Reilly Good data foundations make all the difference in getting the most out of AI. Same principles quietly power context engineering. Overall, a must read for devs who want agents that work well in production. > How AI Works, From Sorcery to Science Even after a decade of tinkering with AI, I still find value in revisiting the fundamentals, especially after spending so much time at the app layer. Embrace the beginner mindset. > The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant Gem. Hard to put down, one of the easiest books to recommend / gift to others. whi is a must follow. > Impact Networks by David Ehrlichman Systems thinking for building decentralized networks. Implementation is brutally difficult tho, only works if you think in long time horizons. Neat to learn later the author is co-founder of hats protocol :) it was okey, join a DAO to learn fr tho. > Real-World Bug Hunting (nostarchpress) Contains a buncha real-world case studies that help to understand the attacker mindset which is something I want to distill into agents that can help secure AI-written code. Plenty of write-ups can be found online (search awesome bugbounty) > The Art of Clean Code (nostarchpress) Clean code is more secure, lasts longer, and is easier to maintain beyond the original author. Read it once to sharpen your intuition, then use ChatGPT to make a 1 page cheat sheet for when AI coding starts producing too much slop. > Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition The first three chapters covering fundamentals are essential reading for anyone in crypto. 2nd edition adds blockchain cryptography at the end. Middle is very protocol heavy and mainly relevant to implementers and auditors, otherwise safe to skip. > 1776 by David McCullough America's founding history was like a roller coaster. With the 250th anniversary coming up it feels like a perfect moment to reconnect with the story. David McCullough combines masterful storytelling with rigorous historical detail. If you're a film person, check out John Adams HBO miniseries. > The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin was endlessly curious. Unc energy, but never out of touch. Memetic hacker instincts; ran a printing press, helped build the postal service, creator of "Join, or Die" that went viral at the time. Easy to imagine him being an anon shitposter if he were alive today. Written in first person, it read less like a historical artifact and more like a conversation across centuries. > Weapons of Math Destruction Was kinda mid tbh; felt that the core argument landed early and rest largely repeats. Worst case scenarios about algorithms is already everywhere....