[ConcurrentCrab]

As another one of your quiet readers, more specifically a soon-to-be uni grad who's at a crossroads about choosing to pursue my interests in either game engineering or systems engineering as a career path in this hellfire of a world we live in, I ADORE both your books. I think your writing consistently does an amazing job of motivating a practical yet elegant design from first principles.

And yeah, as someone who's trying to start writing a blog on ~technical topics, I get what you mean. Not every explanation can be linearized perfectly, because sometimes two concepts are coupled, motivating and influencing each other's design. Sometimes there are just, so to say, dependency cycles in the "knowledge graph". Can't turn that into a directed acyclic graph no matter how hard you try. The most prudent solution probably is just resolving the cycle iteratively by starting somewhere.