Thanks to @ludicity I learned about Efron Licht (is he on mastodon somewhere?), just finished reading https://eblog.fly.dev/swtalmud.html

I felt like I was just nodding along the whole time. The focus on fundamentals, removing unnecessary bits, keeping things as simple as possible.. but no simpler! Recognizing that humans are part of the system. As creators that have to have judgement about how to build the system. And as eventual users of the system.

His 'starting systems programming' series looks like a fun way to get familiar with go.