Library

A shelf carved into the cavern wall. Pull a book out to read the note.

A short, curated shelf rather than everything I have read. Right now I am reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

Quant & finance

  • Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

    John C. Hull

    The reference I still open when I need to remember exactly how a convention is defined.

  • Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    A good antidote to reading too much into a backtest. Bellwether grades its own signals partly because of this book.

Engineering

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmannreading now

    The book that made me think of a data platform as a set of guarantees rather than a set of jobs.

  • The Pragmatic Programmer

    David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

    Read it early, re-read it after a few years of real work. It lands differently the second time.

  • Designing Machine Learning Systems

    Chip Huyen

    The gap between a model in a notebook and a model in production, laid out honestly. Data pipelines, monitoring and feedback loops get the attention they deserve.

  • AI Engineering

    Chip Huyen

    Building on top of foundation models as an engineering discipline: evaluation, retrieval, agents and the cost of getting them wrong.

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