Boeken
- Kaizen — Masaaki Imai
- Learning Python — Mark Lutz
- The Rust Programming Language — Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols
- The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Skin in the Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charles T. Munger
- Scrum — Jeff Sutherland
- The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
- The DevOps Handbook — Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois & John Willis
- Het Zeilboek — Jan Peter Hoefnagels
- Grokking Algorithms — Aditya Bhargava
2026 reflection
Looking back at this list, the through-lines are clearer than they were when I was reading these books one at a time.
Taleb’s Incerto (Black Swan, Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, Skin in the Game) and Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow shaped how I think about systems under uncertainty. Together with Munger’s latticework idea from Poor Charlie’s Almanack, they are the reason the mental models section exists on this site: short notes on frameworks I actually reach for when working through a problem.
The Rust Programming Language led directly to building the Whisky Collection API in Rust and Axum. Rust is now the default language for new projects in this repo.
The DevOps and Scrum books (Phoenix Project, DevOps Handbook, Scrum) read differently after a decade of applying them at scale. The principles held up; the specific practices evolved. What stuck most: the idea that flow and feedback loops matter more than any single tool or process.