# Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting Yourself Through Byzantine Faults

4 Hacker News commenters recommended Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting Yourself Through Byzantine Faults and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Readers recommend it for its interesting parts and systems mindset, and one says its first part could be a science fiction novel. Only one critic responded, and they objected to the crude title of chapter one.

## Why people recommend it

- Systems mindset (1 comments): "I like the systems mindset in the book." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581520))
- Interesting parts (2 comments): "I read parts of this and found them quite interesting!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592414)) "the parts that to me were the most interesting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641981))
- First part reads like sci-fi (1 comments): "Great book. Its first part could become a sci-fi novel, and that's probably how many of the great novels were written." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582857))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cuckoo-s-egg.md): 40 recommend
- [Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amusing-ourselves-to-death.md): 36 recommend
- [The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/anxious-generation.md): 24 recommend
- [Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullshit-jobs.md): 20 recommend
- [Enshittification by Cory Doctorow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enshittification.md): 19 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Engineering+Schizophrenia%3A+Trusting+Yourself+Through+Byzantine+Faults&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting Yourself Through Byzantine Faults", https://hackerapproved.com/p/engineering-schizophrenia-trusting-yourself-through-byzantine-faults/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).