In short, this book was designed to be read in order.
This isn’t a book containing a hodgepodge of topics. I’ve painstakingly built up the concepts so that each chapter builds upon the previous one, and there’s a kind of storyline arc that carries you through the book.
You might be able to skip to a chapter of interest, but you run the risk of not catching every bit of nuance since I’ll have assumed that you read the previous chapters. Of course, after you’ve read the book once, you should be able to reread any chapter you wish for reference.
The exceptions are Chapters 7 and 8, which serve as a bit of a side quest. You could technically skip those and come back to them later if you’d like.