# Simon Hørup Eskildsen

> Co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, previously infrastructure at Shopify. Writes about databases, performance, napkin math, learning and books.

Every post below is linked as markdown. Talks and podcasts link to a transcript where there is one. Any post's markdown is at its URL plus `.md` (https://sirupsen.com/peak-complexity → https://sirupsen.com/peak-complexity.md).

To search everything, including transcripts: `GET https://sirupsen.com/api/search?q=<query>` returns JSON results.

## Pages

- [Hire](https://sirupsen.com/hire.md): 2023-05-17
- [Projects](https://sirupsen.com/projects.md): 2022
- [Now](https://sirupsen.com/now.md): 2022
- [Napkin](https://sirupsen.com/napkin.md): 2021-11-15
- [About Simon Eskildsen](https://sirupsen.com/about.md): 2021-10-01

## Podcasts

- [p99 Podcast with Sam Lambert: Taylor Otwell of Laravel](https://sirupsen.com/p99-taylor-otwell.md) (transcript; recording: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OGwbnpNEnmKB): 2026-09-03
- [AI Engineer × The Pragmatic Engineer: Building turbopuffer](https://sirupsen.com/ai-engineer-pragmatic-engineer.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQDXzEVHMSE): 2026-08-03
- [p99 Podcast with Sam Lambert: Ankur Goyal of Braintrust](https://sirupsen.com/p99-ankur-goyal.md) (transcript; recording: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKdRRvbBXNJW): 2026-07-01
- [p99 Podcast with Sam Lambert](https://sirupsen.com/p99-sam-lambert.md) (transcript; recording: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvvvBPgABxB): 2026-06-09
- [Cafe Cursor: Scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases](https://sirupsen.com/cafe-cursor-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWyOyyrVIXk): 2026-05-14
- [Latent Space Podcast: Retrieval After RAG with Turbopuffer](https://www.latent.space/p/turbopuffer) (external): 2026-03-12
- [p99 Podcast with Sam Lambert: Daniel Lockyer](https://sirupsen.com/p99-daniel-lockyer.md) (transcript; recording: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwblLMwzqJB): 2026-03-10
- [The Database School Podcast: Faster vector search](https://sirupsen.com/database-school-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ivDkMEclg): 2025-11-13
- [Jason Liu Podcast: Billion-scale vector storage for RAG](https://sirupsen.com/jason-liu-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2N4DT35PKg): 2025-11-04
- [The PMF Show: He built a new database in his bedroom](https://sirupsen.com/pmf-show-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKyhFl-7uPI): 2025-10-30
- [Software Engineering Daily: turbopuffer](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/30/turbopuffer-with-simon-horup-eskildsen/) (external): 2025-09-30
- [Vector Podcast: Economical way of serving vector search workloads](https://sirupsen.com/vector-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Ztqajighg): 2025-09-18
- [Postgres FM: turbopuffer](https://sirupsen.com/postgres-fm-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWmmbr_Fk8): 2025-09-12
- [Bessemer Podcast: Memory, evals, and efficient storage in AI systems](https://sirupsen.com/bessemer-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsvW0jBYm0): 2025-09-11
- [Barrchives Podcast: How to build 10x cheaper with object storage](https://sirupsen.com/barrchives-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KB_Ly6ZJ_E): 2025-08-05
- [Unsupervised Learning: Infrastructure powering top AI apps](https://sirupsen.com/unsupervised-learning-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsvBqkF8Jvs): 2025-07-22
- [The Geek Narrator Podcast: How do vector databases work?](https://sirupsen.com/geeknarrator-vector-databases-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64jzC0sdd-k): 2025-03-29
- [Podcast with Geek Narrator on Object Storage Databases](https://sirupsen.com/geeknarrator-object-storage-podcast.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFmajOeUKnE): 2024-11-16
- [Every Podcast: How to use AI to become a learning machine](https://sirupsen.com/every-podcast-ai-learning.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_4AYLr_hFI): 2024-09-11
- [Inteview on Data Engineering Podcast on Data Diff](https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-diff-open-source-data-integration-validation-episode-303/) (external): 2022-07-03
- [Podcast with Changelog on Napkin Math](https://changelog.com/podcast/412) (external): 2020-09-11
- [Interview with Every.to/Superorganizers: How I Learn](https://every.to/superorganizers/how-to-build-a-learning-machine-299655) (external): 2020-03-03
- [Podcast with The Kindle Chronicles Podcast about Reading](https://sirupsen.com/tkc.md) (transcript; recording: http://thekindlechronicles.com/tkc-534-power-reader-simon-eskildsen): 2018-10-26
- [Podcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify, Round Two](https://sirupsen.com/scale-your-code2.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxkw0UlpfbM): 2018-01-18
- [Podcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify and Running Docker in Production](https://sirupsen.com/scale-your-code.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg3YnnFjw2Y): 2015-09-21

## Talks

- [CMU Database Seminar: turbopuffer, Object Storage-native Database for Search](https://sirupsen.com/cmu-talk.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoRNwNaxfs): 2026-03-09
- [Data Council Conference: Billion-scale vector search with Notion](https://sirupsen.com/data-council-talk.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yb6Nw21QxA): 2025-05-29
- [Talk at SRECON EU: Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles](https://sirupsen.com/napkin-talk.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkSlnrRFqc): 2019-10-03
- [Talk at GOTO Copenhagen: Shopify's Pods Architecture](https://sirupsen.com/goto-copenhagen.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NWDHgWA28): 2017-10-03
- [Talk at @Scale: Resiliency Testing with Toxiproxy](https://atscaleconference.com/videos/resiliency-testing-with-toxiproxy/) (external): 2017-08-31
- [Talk at Railsconf: 5 Years of Rails Scaling to 80K RPS](https://sirupsen.com/2017-railsconf.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWJahMi5NI): 2017-04-27
- [Talk at Full Stack Fest: Multi-DC](https://sirupsen.com/full-stack-fest.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UyDK2bDjc4): 2016-09-05
- [Talk at QCON Sao Paulo: Shopify at Scale](https://www.infoq.com/br/presentations/shopify-at-scale-resilience-developer-productivity) (external): 2016-03-28
- [Talk at CUSEC: Reliable Software in a Chaotic World](https://sirupsen.com/cusec.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOluPRfnyVk): 2016-01-14
- [Talk at Euruko: Super-Reliable Software](http://www.euruko2015.org/) (external): 2015-10-17
- [Talk at Dockercon: Resilient Routing and Discovery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeAEZHby_A) (external): 2015-06-22
- [Talk at Goruco: Building and Testing Resilient Applications](https://sirupsen.com/goruco.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev0KpoACieo): 2015-06-20
- [Talk at GOTO Chicago: Patterns for Docker Success](https://sirupsen.com/docker-goto-chicago.md) (transcript; recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIiFWD7yUw): 2015-05-11
- [Talk at Container Summit: Fireside chat on containers in production](https://www.joyent.com/containersummit) (external): 2015-04-08
- [Talk at DockerCon EU: From This-Looks-Fun to Production](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0sATj9IVc) (external): 2014-12-05
- [Talk at DevOps Days Berlin: Docker at Shopify](https://vimeo.com/110484264) (external): 2014-10-24

## Posts

- [turbopuffer: fast search on object storage](https://turbopuffer.com/blog/turbopuffer) (external): 2024-07-08
- [Scaling Causal's Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells: From Maps to Arrays](https://sirupsen.com/causal.md): 2022-07-05
- [Metrics For Your Web Application's Dashboards](https://sirupsen.com/metrics.md): 2022-03-19
- [Careful Trading Complexity for 'Improvements'](https://sirupsen.com/trading-complexity.md): 2021-11-30
- [Pig Pit](https://twitter.com/Sirupsen/status/1287441605516025857) (external): 2020-07-13
- [Adjacent Possible: Model for Peeking into the Future](https://sirupsen.com/adjacent-possible.md): 2020-05-10
- [How does progress(1) work?](https://sirupsen.com/progress.md): 2020-01-26
- [2018](https://sirupsen.com/2018.md): 2019-01-25
- [How I Read](https://sirupsen.com/read.md): 2018-07-15
- [Media Playlists](https://sirupsen.com/playlists.md): 2018-06-02
- [Positive Unknown-Unknowns](https://sirupsen.com/unk-unk.md): 2018-03-10
- [Peak Complexity](https://sirupsen.com/peak-complexity.md): 2018-02-02
- [2017](https://sirupsen.com/2017.md): 2017-12-30
- [Shitty First Software Drafts](https://sirupsen.com/drafts.md): 2017-06-14
- [What Happens To a Webserver When Clients Refresh Really Fast?](https://github.com/puma/puma/pull/1227) (external): 2017-02-25
- [Minimum Viable Airtable](https://sirupsen.com/minimum-viable-airtable.md): 2017-02-03
- [2016](https://sirupsen.com/2016.md): 2017-01-06
- [Shitlist Driven Development](https://sirupsen.com/shitlists.md): 2016-12-03
- [How I use Airtable](https://sirupsen.com/airtable.md): 2016-11-20
- [Employees Only Podcast](https://sirupsen.com/podcast.md): 2016-07-16
- [Mental Modeling](https://sirupsen.com/mental-modeling.md): 2016-03-31
- [2015](https://sirupsen.com/2015.md): 2016-01-01
- [Season Driven Cooking](https://sirupsen.com/season-driven-cooking.md): 2015-12-05
- [Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production](https://sirupsen.com/production-docker.md): 2015-07-28
- [Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications](https://shopify.engineering/building-and-testing-resilient-ruby-on-rails-applications) (external): 2015-01-29
- [Kafka Producer Pipeline for Ruby on Rails](https://shopify.engineering/kafka-producer-pipeline-for-ruby-on-rails) (external): 2014-07-22
- [Letterpress Cheater Algorithm](https://sirupsen.com/letterpress.md): 2013-09-08
- [Unix Background Queue](https://sirupsen.com/unix-background-queue.md): 2013-09-02
- [Keeping it simple with Test::Unit](https://sirupsen.com/testing.md): 2013-03-13
- [Why I'm glad my iPhone broke](https://sirupsen.com/iphone.md): 2013-01-24
- [30 days of super productivity](https://sirupsen.com/30-days-of-super-productivity.md): 2013-01-21
- [Multitasking makes you dumb](https://sirupsen.com/multitasking-makes-you-dumb.md): 2012-11-05
- [My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics](https://sirupsen.com/my-journey-to-the-international-olympiad-in-informatics.md): 2012-06-26
- [Paperless with Evernote](https://sirupsen.com/paperless-with-evernote.md): 2011-07-26
- [How I get shit done](https://sirupsen.com/how-I-get-shit-done.md): 2011-05-28
- [Stop relying on your ORM and learn SQL](https://sirupsen.com/stop-relying-on-your-orm-and-learn-sql.md): 2011-03-02
- [Improving the Open Source user experience](https://sirupsen.com/improving-the-open-source-user-experience.md): 2011-02-25
- [Setting up Unicorn with Nginx](https://sirupsen.com/setting-up-unicorn-with-nginx.md): 2010-10-22
- [A Rubyist's development environment](https://sirupsen.com/a-rubyists-development-environment.md): 2010-09-19
- [A simple Imgur Bash screenshot utility](https://sirupsen.com/a-simple-imgur-bash-screenshot-utility.md): 2010-05-10
- [My experience with Arch Linux](https://sirupsen.com/my-experience-with-arch-linux.md): 2010-04-06

## Napkin Math

- [Napkin Problem 21: Index Merges vs Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL](https://sirupsen.com/index-merges.md): 2022-11-26
- [Napkin Problem 18: Neural Network From Scratch](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/neural-net.md): 2022-01-03
- [Napkin Problem 16: When To Write a Simulator](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-16-simulation.md): 2021-09-13
- [Napkin Problem 15: Increase HTTP Performance by Fitting In the Initial TCP Slow Start Window](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-15.md): 2021-07-13
- [Napkin Problem 14: Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-14-using-checksums-to-verify.md): 2021-01-02
- [Napkin Problem 13: Filtering with Inverted Indexes](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-13-filtering-with-inverted-indexes.md): 2020-11-08
- [Napkin Problem 12: Recommendations](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-12-recommendations.md): 2020-09-27
- [Napkin Problem 11: Circuit Breakers](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-11-circuit-breakers.md): 2020-08-22
- [Napkin Problem 10: MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second.md): 2020-07-17
- [Napkin Problem 9: Inverted Index Performance and Merkle Tree Syncronization](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-9.md): 2020-06-07
- [Napkin Problem 8: Data Synchronization](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-8.md): 2020-05-03
- [Napkin Problem 7: Revision History](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-7.md): 2020-04-11
- [Napkin Problem 6: In-memory Search](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-6.md): 2020-03-07
- [Napkin Problem 5: Composite Primary Keys](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-5.md): 2020-02-03
- [Napkin Problem 4: Redis throughput](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-4.md): 2020-01-07
- [Napkin Problem 3: Membership Intersection Service](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-3.md): 2019-12-15
- [Napkin Problem 2: Expected Database Query Latency](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-2.md): 2019-11-02
- [Napkin Problem 1: Logging Cost](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-1.md): 2019-10-19

## Book notes

- [Why Buddhism is True](https://sirupsen.com/books/budhism-is-true.md): 2022-07-29 by Robert Wright
- [Punished by Rewards](https://sirupsen.com/books/punished-by-rewards.md): 2022-06-13 by Alfie Kohn
- [Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order](https://sirupsen.com/books/principles-world-order.md): 2022-04-25 by Ray Dalio
- [Data Oriented Design](https://sirupsen.com/books/data-oriented-design.md): 2022-03-29 by Richard Fabian
- [Making Numbers Count](https://sirupsen.com/books/numbers-count.md): 2022-03-22 by Chip Heath
- [The Beginning of Infinity](https://sirupsen.com/books/beginning-of-infinity.md): 2022-03-22 by David Deutsch
- [The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann](https://sirupsen.com/books/von-neumann.md): 2022-02-01 by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- [Venture Deals](https://sirupsen.com/books/venture-deals.md): 2022-02-01 by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- [Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon](https://sirupsen.com/books/working-backwards.md): 2022-01-01 by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
- [The Ministry for the Future](https://sirupsen.com/books/ministry-future.md): 2021-12-31 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- [The Wires of War](https://sirupsen.com/books/wires-of-war.md): 2021-11-07 by Jacob Helberg
- [When Breath Becomes Air](https://sirupsen.com/books/breath-air.md): 2021-11-01 by Paul Kalanithi
- [Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and Pytorch](https://sirupsen.com/books/deep-learning-for-coders.md): 2021-10-28 by Jeremy Howard
- [Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts](https://sirupsen.com/books/merchants-of-truth.md): 2021-10-15 by Jill Abramson
- [The Whisper in the Night Wind](https://sirupsen.com/books/whisper-night-wind.md): 2021-10-12 by Adam Shoalts
- [The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History](https://sirupsen.com/books/gray-lady-winked.md): 2021-10-11 by Ashley Rindsberg
- [How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need](https://sirupsen.com/books/climate-disaster.md): 2021-09-29 by Bill Gates
- [The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society](https://sirupsen.com/books/exponential-age.md): 2021-09-24 by Azeem Azhar
- [Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization](https://sirupsen.com/books/drunk.md): 2021-09-10 by Edward Slingerland
- [An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island](https://sirupsen.com/books/an-island-to-oneself.md): 2021-08-24 by Tom Neale
- [The Death and Life of Great American Cities](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities.md): 2021-08-01 by Jane Jacobs
- [Black Edge](https://sirupsen.com/books/black-edge.md): 2021-08-01 by Sheelah Kolhatkar
- [Synesthesia](https://sirupsen.com/books/synesthesia.md): 2021-07-11 by Alexander Duncan
- [The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-stranger-in-the-woods.md): 2021-06-29 by Michael Finkel, Mark Bramhall
- [The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-happiness-hypothesis.md): 2021-06-19 by Jonathan Haidt
- [Beyond](https://sirupsen.com/books/beyond-the-trees.md): 2021-05-01 by Adam Shoalts
- [Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown](https://sirupsen.com/books/alone-against-the-north.md): 2021-05-01 by Adam Shoalts
- [A Philosophy of Software Design](https://sirupsen.com/books/a-philosophy-of-software-design.md): 2021-04-22 by John Ousterhout
- [Beginners](https://sirupsen.com/books/beginners.md): 2021-04-01 by Tom Vanderbilt
- [The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-top-five-regrets-of-the-dying.md): 2021-03-01 by Bronnie Ware
- [Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle](https://sirupsen.com/books/burnout.md): 2021-03-01 by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
- [Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life](https://sirupsen.com/books/skin-in-the-game.md): 2020-12-28 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- [Successful Acquisitions](https://sirupsen.com/books/successful-acquisitions.md): 2020-11-01 by David Braun
- [My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel](https://sirupsen.com/books/my-promised-land.md): 2020-11-01 by Ari Shavit
- [A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land](https://sirupsen.com/books/a-history-of-canada-in-ten-maps.md): 2020-11-01 by Adam Shoalts
- [The Psychology of Money](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-psychology-of-money.md): 2020-10-01 by Morgan Housel
- [Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity](https://sirupsen.com/books/panic.md): 2020-10-01 by Michael   Lewis
- [How Innovation Works](https://sirupsen.com/books/how-innovation-works.md): 2020-10-01 by Matt Ridley
- [Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters](https://sirupsen.com/books/good-strategy-bad-strategy.md): 2020-10-01 by Richard
- [Streaming Systems](https://sirupsen.com/books/streaming-systems.md): 2020-08-01 by Tyler Akidau
- [Liar's Poker](https://sirupsen.com/books/liars-poker.md): 2020-08-01 by Michael   Lewis
- [Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing](https://sirupsen.com/books/hell-yeah-or-no.md): 2020-08-01 by Derek Sivers
- [Deskbound](https://sirupsen.com/books/deskbound.md): 2020-08-01 by Kelly Starett
- [White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism](https://sirupsen.com/books/white-fragility.md): 2020-07-01 by Robin DiAngelo
- [The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-man-who-solved-the-market.md): 2020-07-01 by Gregory Zuckerman
- [The End of Policing](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-end-of-policing.md): 2020-07-01 by Alex S. Vitale
- [Relevant Search: With Examples Using Elasticsearch and Solr](https://sirupsen.com/books/relevant-search.md): 2020-06-01 by Doug Turnbull
- [Lucene in Action Second Edition](https://sirupsen.com/books/lucene-in-action-second-edition.md): 2020-06-01 by Michael McCandless
- [Multiplayer Game Programming: Architecting Networked Games](https://sirupsen.com/books/multiplayer-game-programming.md): 2020-04-26 by Josh Glazer
- [Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases](https://sirupsen.com/books/vaccinated.md): 2020-04-01 by Paul A. Offit
- [Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen](https://sirupsen.com/books/upstream.md): 2020-04-01 by Dan Heath
- [The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-american-plague.md): 2020-04-01 by Molly Caldwell Crosby
- [Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results](https://sirupsen.com/books/radical-focus.md): 2020-03-07 by Christina Wodtke
- [BPF Performance Tools](https://sirupsen.com/books/bpf-performance-tools.md): 2020-03-07 by Brendan Gregg
- [The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-hot-zone.md): 2020-03-01 by Richard Preston
- [The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-great-influenza.md): 2020-03-01 by John M. Barry
- [Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud](https://sirupsen.com/books/systems-performance.md): 2020-02-10 by Brendan Gregg
- [The Power of Little Ideas](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-power-of-little-ideas.md): 2020-02-08 by David C.  Robertson
- [Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation](https://sirupsen.com/books/where-good-ideas-come-from.md): 2020-01-27 by Steven Johnson
- [Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems](https://sirupsen.com/books/sunburst.md): 2020-01-04 by Mark Hall
- [Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance](https://sirupsen.com/books/grit.md): 2020-01-02 by Angela Duckworth
- [Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History](https://sirupsen.com/books/cuisine-and-empire.md): 2020-01-01 by Rachel Laudan
- [Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)](https://sirupsen.com/books/deaths-end-remembrance-of-earths-past-3.md): 2019-12-31 by Liu Cixin
- [Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West](https://sirupsen.com/books/confucius-lives-next-door.md): 2019-12-14 by T.R. Reid
- [The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-chip.md): 2019-12-02 by T.R. Reid
- [Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time](https://sirupsen.com/books/longitude.md): 2019-11-30 by Dava Sobel
- [Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us](https://sirupsen.com/books/drive.md): 2019-11-19 by Daniel H. Pink
- [The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-idea-factory.md): 2019-11-10 by Jon Gertner
- [Niels Bohr — Et Portræt](https://sirupsen.com/books/niels-bohr--et-portrt.md): 2019-11-10 by Anne-Sofie Storm Wesche
- [The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-perfectionists.md): 2019-10-14 by Simon Winchester
- [Energy: A Human History](https://sirupsen.com/books/energy.md): 2019-10-11 by Richard Rhodes
- [Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry](https://sirupsen.com/books/brick-by-brick.md): 2019-10-11 by David C.  Robertson
- [Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams](https://sirupsen.com/books/peopleware.md): 2019-10-08 by Tom DeMarco
- [Measure What Matters](https://sirupsen.com/books/measure-what-matters.md): 2019-10-08 by John E. Doerr
- [Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World](https://sirupsen.com/books/deep-work.md): 2019-09-20 by Cal Newport
- [Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries](https://sirupsen.com/books/loonshots.md): 2019-09-16 by Safi Bahcall
- [Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman](https://sirupsen.com/books/let-my-people-go-surfing.md): 2019-09-16 by Yvon Chouinard
- [Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy](https://sirupsen.com/books/scary-close.md): 2019-09-14 by Donald Miller
- [Kelly: More Than My Share of It All](https://sirupsen.com/books/kelly.md): 2019-08-23 by Clarence L. Johnson
- [Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon](https://sirupsen.com/books/rocket-men.md): 2019-08-17 by Robert Kurson
- [Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age](https://sirupsen.com/books/dealers-of-lightning.md): 2019-08-04 by Michael A. Hiltzik
- [Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making](https://sirupsen.com/books/tempo.md): 2019-08-03 by Venkatesh G. Rao
- [Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society](https://sirupsen.com/books/blueprint.md): 2019-08-03 by Nicholas A. Christakis
- [What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory](https://sirupsen.com/books/what-every-programmer-should-know-about-memory.md): 2019-07-21 by Ulrich Drepper
- [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity](https://sirupsen.com/books/getting-things-done.md): 2019-07-14 by David    Allen
- [Factor Man](https://sirupsen.com/books/factor-man.md): 2019-07-14 by Matt Ginsberg
- [Becoming](https://sirupsen.com/books/becoming.md): 2019-06-16 by Michelle Obama
- [Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity](https://sirupsen.com/books/radical-candor.md): 2019-06-07 by Kim Malone Scott
- [Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success](https://sirupsen.com/books/give-and-take.md): 2019-05-23 by Adam M. Grant
- [For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink](https://sirupsen.com/books/for-all-the-tea-in-china.md): 2019-05-12 by Sarah Rose
- [The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-dark-forest-remembrance-of-earths-past-2.md): 2019-05-06 by Liu Cixin
- [The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-three-body-problem-remembrance-of-earths-past-1.md): 2019-04-25 by Liu Cixin
- [The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-mythical-man-month.md): 2019-04-25 by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- [The Elementary Particles](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-elementary-particles.md): 2019-04-25 by Michel Houellebecq
- [Status Anxiety](https://sirupsen.com/books/status-anxiety.md): 2019-04-25 by Alain de Botton
- [Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice](https://sirupsen.com/books/jobs-to-be-done.md): 2019-04-03 by Anthony W. Ulwick
- [Hitchhiking in the axis of evil by thumb through Iran, Irak and Afghanistan](https://sirupsen.com/books/hitchhiking-in-the-axis-of-evil-by-thumb-through-iran-irak-and-afghanistan.md): 2019-04-03 by Juan Pablo Villarino
- [Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate](https://sirupsen.com/books/ninety-percent-of-everything.md): 2019-03-27 by Rose George
- [The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-great-mental-models.md): 2019-03-23 by Shane Parrish
- [Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea Into a Global Business](https://sirupsen.com/books/startupland.md): 2019-03-21 by Mikkel Svane
- [Image Performance](https://sirupsen.com/books/image-performance.md): 2019-03-21 by Mat Marquis
- [Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup](https://sirupsen.com/books/bad-blood.md): 2019-03-21 by John Carreyrou
- [Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming](https://sirupsen.com/books/coders-at-work.md): 2019-03-18 by Peter Seibel
- [Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed](https://sirupsen.com/books/collapse.md): 2019-03-09 by Jared Diamond
- [Usability Engineering](https://sirupsen.com/books/usability-engineering.md): 2019-02-28 by Jakob Nielsen
- [Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance](https://sirupsen.com/books/time-is-money.md): 2019-02-28 by Tammy Everts
- [Game Engine Black Book, Wolfenstein 3D](https://sirupsen.com/books/game-engine-black-book-wolfenstein-3d.md): 2019-02-11 by Fabien Sanglard
- [The Complete Guide to Rails Performance](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-complete-guide-to-rails-performance.md): 2019-02-06 by Nate Berkopec
- [The Art of Application Performance Testing](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-art-of-application-performance-testing.md): 2019-02-06 by Molyneaux Ian
- [High Performance Browser Networking](https://sirupsen.com/books/high-performance-browser-networking.md): 2019-02-06 by Ilya Grigorik
- [Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software](https://sirupsen.com/books/designing-and-engineering-time.md): 2019-02-06 by Steven C. Seow
- [Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams](https://sirupsen.com/books/why-we-sleep.md): 2019-01-26 by Matthew Walker
- [Eksil](https://sirupsen.com/books/eksil.md): 2019 by Jakob Ejersbo
- [The North Water](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-north-water.md): 2018-12-31 by Ian McGuire
- [The Course of Love](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-course-of-love.md): 2018-12-27 by Alain de Botton
- [The Rats in the Walls](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-rats-in-the-walls.md): 2018-12-26 by H.P. Lovecraft
- [The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-age-of-gold.md): 2018-12-20 by H.W. Brands
- [Daughter of Fortune](https://sirupsen.com/books/daughter-of-fortune.md): 2018-12-20 by Isabel Allende
- [Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World](https://sirupsen.com/books/clean-meat.md): 2018-12-20 by Paul Shapiro
- [The Book Thief](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-book-thief.md): 2018-12-04 by Markus Zusak
- [The Victorian Internet](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-victorian-internet.md): 2018-12-01 by Tom Standage
- [Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza](https://sirupsen.com/books/between-cross-and-crescent.md): 2018-10-31 by David B. Ruderman
- [Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box](https://sirupsen.com/books/leadership-and-self-deception.md): 2018-10-27 by The Arbinger Institute
- [The Selfish Gene](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-selfish-gene.md): 2018-10-19 by Richard Dawkins
- [Some Thoughts About Relationships](https://sirupsen.com/books/some-thoughts-about-relationships.md): 2018-10-19 by Colin Wright
- [How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers](https://sirupsen.com/books/how-to-take-smart-notes.md): 2018-10-19 by Sönke Ahrens
- [It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work](https://sirupsen.com/books/it-doesnt-have-to-be-crazy-at-work.md): 2018-10-16 by Jason Fried
- [Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley](https://sirupsen.com/books/chaos-monkeys.md): 2018-09-18 by Antonio García Martínez
- [The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-art-of-strategy.md): 2018-09-12 by Avinash K. Dixit
- [Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference](https://sirupsen.com/books/doing-good-better.md): 2018-09-12 by William MacAskill
- [The Wright Brothers](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-wright-brothers.md): 2018-09-01 by David McCullough
- [Turkey: A Short History](https://sirupsen.com/books/turkey.md): 2018-08-29 by Norman Stone
- [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-oz-1.md): 2018-08-12 by L. Frank Baum
- [The Decision Checklist: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Problems](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-decision-checklist.md): 2018-08-12 by Sam Kyle
- [Managing Oneself](https://sirupsen.com/books/managing-oneself.md): 2018-08-09 by Peter F. Drucker
- [Anna Karenina](https://sirupsen.com/books/anna-karenina.md): 2018-08-05 by Leo Tolstoy
- [The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-phoenix-project.md): 2018-07-04 by Gene Kim
- [Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE](https://sirupsen.com/books/shoe-dog.md): 2018-06-24 by Phil Knight
- [Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet](https://sirupsen.com/books/living-with-a-seal.md): 2018-06-17 by Jesse Itzler
- [Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built](https://sirupsen.com/books/alibaba.md): 2018-06-17 by Duncan Clark
- [The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-goal.md): 2018-06-11 by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- [Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order](https://sirupsen.com/books/sync.md): 2018-05-29 by Steven H. Strogatz
- [Metaphors We Live By](https://sirupsen.com/books/metaphors-we-live-by.md): 2018-05-29 by George Lakoff
- [1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus](https://sirupsen.com/books/1491.md): 2018-05-29 by Charles C. Mann
- [The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-other-side-of-history.md): 2018-05-04 by Robert Garland
- [The Little Book of Tourists in Iceland: Tips, tricks, and what the Icelanders really think of you](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-little-book-of-tourists-in-iceland.md): 2018-04-15 by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
- [Alexander the Great](https://sirupsen.com/books/alexander-the-great.md): 2018-04-12 by Robin Lane Fox
- [The Little Book of the Icelanders: 50 miniature essays on the quirks and foibles of the Icelandic people](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-little-book-of-the-icelanders.md): 2018-04-09 by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
- [A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy](https://sirupsen.com/books/a-guide-to-the-good-life.md): 2018-04-01 by William B. Irvine
- [Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets](https://sirupsen.com/books/fooled-by-randomness.md): 2018-03-29 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- [Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die](https://sirupsen.com/books/made-to-stick.md): 2018-03-25 by Chip Heath
- [Thinking in Systems: A Primer](https://sirupsen.com/books/thinking-in-systems.md): 2018-03-22 by Donella H. Meadows
- [Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-1.md): 2018-03-15 by Robin Sloan
- [The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team.md): 2018-03-11 by Patrick Lencioni
- [Artemis](https://sirupsen.com/books/artemis.md): 2018-03-07 by Andy Weir
- [American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road](https://sirupsen.com/books/american-kingpin.md): 2018-03-06 by Nick Bilton
- [Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility](https://sirupsen.com/books/powerful.md): 2018-03-04 by Patty McCord
- [Who: The A Method for Hiring](https://sirupsen.com/books/who.md): 2018-02-26 by Geoff Smart
- [The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-best-team-wins.md): 2018-02-26 by Adrian Gostick
- [Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://sirupsen.com/books/sapiens.md): 2018-02-26 by Yuval Noah Harari
- [The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-happiness-trap.md): 2018-02-17 by Russ Harris
- [Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts](https://sirupsen.com/books/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain.md): 2018-01-31 by David Gerard
- [The Internet of Money](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-internet-of-money.md): 2018-01-28 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- [Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies](https://sirupsen.com/books/mastering-bitcoin.md): 2018-01-28 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- [The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked The Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, And Emerged Triumphant From Two Centuries Of Controversy](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-theory-that-would-not-die.md): 2018-01-21 by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- [Sourdough](https://sirupsen.com/books/sourdough.md): 2018-01-15 by Robin Sloan
- [Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard](https://sirupsen.com/books/switch.md): 2018-01-03 by Chip Heath
- [The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-sense-of-style.md): 2017-12-29 by Steven Pinker
- [Principles: Life and Work](https://sirupsen.com/books/principles.md): 2017-12-25 by Ray Dalio
- [Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything](https://sirupsen.com/books/moonwalking-with-einstein.md): 2017-12-23 by Joshua Foer
- [Ready Player One](https://sirupsen.com/books/ready-player-one.md): 2017-12-21 by Ernest Cline
- [Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/unlimited-memory.md): 2017-12-20 by Kevin Horsley
- [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows.md): 2017-12-14 by J.K. Rowling
- [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-harry-potter-6.md): 2017-11-18 by J.K. Rowling
- [Six Thinking Hats](https://sirupsen.com/books/six-thinking-hats.md): 2017-11-06 by Edward de Bono
- [Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man](https://sirupsen.com/books/rory-sutherland.md): 2017-11-05 by Rory Sutherland
- [The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-power-of-moments.md): 2017-10-10 by Chip Heath
- [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-harry-potter-5.md): 2017-10-09 by J.K. Rowling
- [Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness](https://sirupsen.com/books/nudge.md): 2017-10-07 by Richard H. Thaler
- [Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen](https://sirupsen.com/books/know-what-you-dont-know.md): 2017-10-03 by Michael A. Roberto
- [Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger](https://sirupsen.com/books/poor-charlies-almanack.md): 2017-09-21 by Charles T. Munger
- [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire.md): 2017-09-21 by J.K. Rowling
- [Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work](https://sirupsen.com/books/decisive.md): 2017-09-10 by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-harry-potter-3.md): 2017-09-04 by J.K. Rowling
- [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-harry-potter-2.md): 2017-08-27 by J.K. Rowling
- [The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-managers-path.md): 2017-08-26 by Camille Fournier
- [Chaos Engineering](https://sirupsen.com/books/chaos-engineering.md): 2017-08-26 by Casey Rosenthal
- [The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-simple-path-to-wealth.md): 2017-08-20 by J.L. Collins
- [Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City](https://sirupsen.com/books/evicted.md): 2017-08-20 by Matthew Desmond
- [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-harry-potter-1.md): 2017-08-19 by J.K. Rowling
- [The Way to Wealth](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-way-to-wealth.md): 2017-08-17 by Benjamin Franklin
- [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin.md): 2017-08-14 by Benjamin Franklin
- [The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-elements-of-eloquence.md): 2017-08-07 by Mark Forsyth
- [The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-complacent-class.md): 2017-07-28 by Tyler Cowen
- [Remote: Office Not Required](https://sirupsen.com/books/remote.md): 2017-07-28 by David Heinemeier Hansson
- [Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning](https://sirupsen.com/books/make-it-stick.md): 2017-07-28 by Peter C. Brown
- [Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps That Lead to Debacles](https://sirupsen.com/books/why-decisions-fail.md): 2017-07-09 by Paul C. Nutt
- [How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease](https://sirupsen.com/books/how-not-to-die.md): 2017-07-09 by Michael  Greger
- [Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World](https://sirupsen.com/books/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world.md): 2017-07-09 by Haruki Murakami
- [The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-coaching-habit.md): 2017-05-25 by Michael Bungay Stanier
- [Flowers for Algernon](https://sirupsen.com/books/flowers-for-algernon.md): 2017-04-27 by Daniel Keyes
- [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://sirupsen.com/books/quiet.md): 2017-04-22 by Susan Cain
- [Slaughterhouse-Five](https://sirupsen.com/books/slaughterhouse-five.md): 2017-04-17 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- [The Investment Checklist: The Art of In-Depth Research](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-investment-checklist.md): 2017-04-07 by Michael Shearn
- [What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful](https://sirupsen.com/books/what-got-you-here-wont-get-you-there.md): 2017-03-29 by Marshall Goldsmith
- [The Martian](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-martian.md): 2017-03-29 by Andy Weir
- [What Makes Sammy Run?](https://sirupsen.com/books/what-makes-sammy-run.md): 2017-03-28 by Budd Schulberg
- [Stories of Your Life and Others](https://sirupsen.com/books/stories-of-your-life-and-others.md): 2017-03-23 by Ted Chiang
- [The Lessons of History](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-lessons-of-history.md): 2017-03-19 by Will Durant
- [The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-buy-side.md): 2017-03-12 by Turney Duff
- [One Hundred Years of Solitude](https://sirupsen.com/books/one-hundred-years-of-solitude.md): 2017-03-07 by Gabriel García Márquez
- [Ego Is the Enemy](https://sirupsen.com/books/ego-is-the-enemy.md): 2017-03-01 by Ryan Holiday
- [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies](https://sirupsen.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel.md): 2017-02-20 by Jared Diamond
- [And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East](https://sirupsen.com/books/and-then-all-hell-broke-loose.md): 2017-01-08 by Richard Engel
- [Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World](https://sirupsen.com/books/genghis-khan-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world.md): 2017-01-02 by Jack Weatherford
- [Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt](https://sirupsen.com/books/flash-boys.md): 2016-12-25 by Michael   Lewis
- [The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-age-of-absurdity.md): 2016-12-20 by Michael Foley
- [The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-essential-yusuf-idris.md): 2016-12-18 by Denys Johnson-Davies
- [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-inevitable.md): 2016-12-03 by Kevin Kelly
- [Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](https://sirupsen.com/books/freakonomics.md): 2016-11-27 by Steven D. Levitt
- [Never Split the Difference](https://sirupsen.com/books/never-split-the-difference.md): 2016-10-01 by Chris Voss
- [Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body](https://sirupsen.com/books/bigger-leaner-stronger.md): 2016-09-17 by Michael  Matthews
- [Leaders Eat Last](https://sirupsen.com/books/leaders-eat-last.md): 2016-08-13 by Simon Sinek
- [The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-dirty-life.md): 2016-07-30 by Kristin Kimball
- [Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and The Man Who Reinvented Food](https://sirupsen.com/books/ferran.md): 2016-07-16 by Colman Andrews
- [Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health](https://sirupsen.com/books/eating-on-the-wild-side.md): 2016-07-10 by Jo Robinson
- [Man's Search for Meaning](https://sirupsen.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning.md): 2016-07-03 by Viktor E. Frankl
- [Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World](https://sirupsen.com/books/team-of-teams.md): 2016-06-29 by Stanley McChrystal
- [Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking](https://sirupsen.com/books/opposable-mind.md): 2016-05-25 by Roger L. Martin
- [The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-checklist-manifesto.md): 2016-05-09 by Atul Gawande
- [Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems](https://sirupsen.com/books/site-reliability-engineering.md): 2016-05-07 by Betsy Beyer
- [The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-war-of-art.md): 2016-04-23 by Steven Pressfield
- [The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-one-thing.md): 2016-04-15 by Gary Keller
- [The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-elon-musk-blog-series.md): 2016-04-05 by Tim Urban
- [Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week](https://sirupsen.com/books/body-by-science.md): 2016-04-03 by John  Little
- [Between the World and Me](https://sirupsen.com/books/between-the-world-and-me.md): 2016-04-01 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- [High Output Management](https://sirupsen.com/books/high-output-management.md): 2016-03-22 by Andrew S. Grove
- [We Learn Nothing](https://sirupsen.com/books/we-learn-nothing.md): 2016-03-13 by Tim Kreider
- [Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed](https://sirupsen.com/books/brazil-on-the-rise.md): 2016-03-07 by Larry Rohter
- [Mexico: A History](https://sirupsen.com/books/mexico.md): 2016-02-24 by Robert Ryal Miller
- [Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide: A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine](https://sirupsen.com/books/elasticsearch.md): 2016-02-14 by Clinton Gormley
- [The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-planet-remade.md): 2016-02-03 by Oliver Morton
- [The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook: A Guide to the World's Best Teas](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-tea-enthusiasts-handbook.md): 2016-01-21 by Mary Lou Heiss
- [Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly](https://sirupsen.com/books/kitchen-confidential.md): 2016-01-04 by Anthony Bourdain
- [Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal](https://sirupsen.com/books/odd-bits.md): 2016-01-03 by Jennifer McLagan
- [Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect](https://sirupsen.com/books/social.md): 2015-12-27 by Matthew D. Lieberman
- [The Ultimate Diet 2.0. Advanced Cyclical Dieting for Achieving Super Leanness.](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-ultimate-diet-20-advanced-cyclical-dieting-for-achieving-super-leanness.md): 2015-12-23 by Lyle McDonald
- [Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction](https://sirupsen.com/books/superforecasting.md): 2015-12-20 by Philip E. Tetlock
- [The Art and Craft of Tea](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-art-and-craft-of-tea.md): 2015-12-19 by Joseph Wesley Uhl
- [Become the next American Ninja Warrior: The Ultimate Guide on How to Prepare and Win the next American Ninja Warrior Obstacle Race](https://sirupsen.com/books/become-the-next-american-ninja-warrior.md): 2015-11-30 by Brian Davidson
- [Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action](https://sirupsen.com/books/start-with-why.md): 2015-11-29 by Simon Sinek
- [Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)](https://sirupsen.com/books/anne-of-green-gables-anne-of-green-gables-1.md): 2015-11-25 by L.M. Montgomery
- [Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future](https://sirupsen.com/books/elon-musk.md): 2015-11-04 by Ashlee Vance
- [100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation](https://sirupsen.com/books/100-deadly-skills.md): 2015-11-04 by Clint Emerson
- [Convict Conditioning 2: Advanced Prison Training Tactics for Muscle Gain, Fat Loss and Bulletproof Joints](https://sirupsen.com/books/convict-conditioning-2.md): 2015-10-31 by Paul 'Coach' Wade
- [Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength](https://sirupsen.com/books/convict-conditioning.md): 2015-10-27 by Paul 'Coach' Wade
- [The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-power-of-habit.md): 2015-10-25 by Charles Duhigg
- [Developing the Leader Within You](https://sirupsen.com/books/developing-the-leader-within-you.md): 2015-10-12 by John C. Maxwell
- [The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-dorito-effect.md): 2015-10-04 by Mark Schatzker
- [Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency](https://sirupsen.com/books/slack.md): 2015-09-05 by Tom DeMarco
- [Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal](https://sirupsen.com/books/pitch-anything.md): 2015-09-02 by Oren Klaff
- [The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long Term Health](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-good-gut.md): 2015-08-20 by Justin Sonnenburg
- [Outliers: The Story of Success](https://sirupsen.com/books/outliers.md): 2015-07-28 by Malcolm Gladwell
- [Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think](https://sirupsen.com/books/abundance.md): 2015-07-26 by Peter H. Diamandis
- [The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-practicing-mind.md): 2015-07-16 by Thomas M. Sterner
- [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://sirupsen.com/books/vagabonding.md): 2015-07-14 by Rolf Potts
- [The Psychology of Computer Programming](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-psychology-of-computer-programming.md): 2015-07-12 by Gerald M. Weinberg
- [Modern Romance](https://sirupsen.com/books/modern-romance.md): 2015-07-05 by Aziz Ansari
- [Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead](https://sirupsen.com/books/lean-in.md): 2015-06-29 by Sheryl Sandberg
- [Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law](https://sirupsen.com/books/life-without-lawyers.md): 2015-06-24 by Philip K. Howard
- [The Magic of Thinking Big](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-magic-of-thinking-big.md): 2015-06-14 by David J. Schwartz
- [Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World](https://sirupsen.com/books/bold.md): 2015-06-12 by Peter H. Diamandis
- [Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life](https://sirupsen.com/books/brain-maker.md): 2015-06-11 by David Perlmutter
- [Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization](https://sirupsen.com/books/tribal-leadership.md): 2015-06-04 by Dave Logan
- [ZooKeeper: Distributed process coordination](https://sirupsen.com/books/zookeeper.md): 2015-05-30 by Flavio Junqueira
- [The Truth about Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-Of-The-Matter Facts You Need to Know](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-truth-about-leadership.md): 2015-05-12 by James M. Kouzes
- [Meditations](https://sirupsen.com/books/meditations.md): 2015-05-06 by Marcus Aurelius
- [Mastery](https://sirupsen.com/books/mastery.md): 2015-05-04 by Robert Greene
- [Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: Networking APIs - Sockets and XTI](https://sirupsen.com/books/unix-network-programming-volume-1.md): 2015-05-02 by W. Richard Stevens
- [The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and Unix System Programming Handbook](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-linux-programming-interface.md): 2015-05-02 by Michael Kerrisk
- [The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-death-of-common-sense.md): 2015-04-30 by Philip K. Howard
- [Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills](https://sirupsen.com/books/vim-and-vi-tips.md): 2015-04-29 by Jacek Artymiak
- [Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications](https://sirupsen.com/books/programming-collective-intelligence.md): 2015-04-29 by Toby Segaran
- [Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction](https://sirupsen.com/books/philosophy.md): 2015-04-29 by Edward Craig
- [Lying](https://sirupsen.com/books/lying.md): 2015-04-29 by Sam Harris
- [Ikigai](https://sirupsen.com/books/ikigai.md): 2015-04-29 by Sebastian Marshall
- [Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code](https://sirupsen.com/books/effective-programming.md): 2015-04-29 by Jeff Atwood
- [Desert Encounter](https://sirupsen.com/books/desert-encounter.md): 2015-04-29 by Knud Holmboe
- [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder](https://sirupsen.com/books/antifragile.md): 2015-04-29 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- [Algorithms in a Nutshell](https://sirupsen.com/books/algorithms-in-a-nutshell.md): 2015-04-29 by George T. Heineman
- [Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life](https://sirupsen.com/books/bird-by-bird.md): 2015-04-08 by Anne Lamott
- [The Timeless Way of Building](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-timeless-way-of-building.md): 2015-04-06 by Christopher W. Alexander
- [A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://sirupsen.com/books/a-pattern-language.md): 2015-04-06 by Christopher W. Alexander
- [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://sirupsen.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow.md): 2015-04-03 by Daniel Kahneman
- [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://sirupsen.com/books/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md): 2015-04-03 by Dale Carnegie
- [Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests](https://sirupsen.com/books/growing-object-oriented-software-guided-by-tests.md): 2015-04-03 by Steve  Freeman
- [Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity](https://sirupsen.com/books/deep-simplicity.md): 2015-04-03 by John Gribbin
- [Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High](https://sirupsen.com/books/crucial-conversations.md): 2015-04-03 by Kerry Patterson
- [The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-obstacle-is-the-way.md): 2015-03-29 by Ryan Holiday
- [Complete Calisthenics - The Ultimate Guide To Bodyweight Exercise](https://sirupsen.com/books/complete-calisthenics---the-ultimate-guide-to-bodyweight-exercise.md): 2015-03-12 by Ashley Kalym
- [The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-pragmatic-programmer.md): 2015-01-01 by Andy Hunt
- [The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-flavor-bible.md): 2015-01-01 by Karen Page
- [Steve Jobs](https://sirupsen.com/books/steve-jobs.md): 2015-01-01 by Walter Isaacson
- [Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware](https://sirupsen.com/books/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning.md): 2015-01-01 by Andy Hunt
- [Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It](https://sirupsen.com/books/fluent-forever.md): 2015-01-01 by Gabriel Wyner
- [Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food](https://sirupsen.com/books/cooking-for-geeks.md): 2015-01-01 by Jeff Potter
- [Competitive Programming 3](https://sirupsen.com/books/competitive-programming-3.md): 2015-01-01 by Steven Halim
- [Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future](https://sirupsen.com/books/zero-to-one.md): 2014-12-01 by Peter Thiel
- [Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All](https://sirupsen.com/books/great-by-choice.md): 2014-12-01 by James C. Collins
- [Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software](https://sirupsen.com/books/release-it.md): 2014-10-01 by Michael T. Nygard
- [The Design of Everyday Things](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-design-of-everyday-things.md): 2014-02-01 by Donald A. Norman
- [The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-art-of-capacity-planning.md): 2014-01-01 by John Allspaw
- [Modernist Cuisine at Home](https://sirupsen.com/books/modernist-cuisine-at-home.md): 2014-01-01 by Nathan Myhrvold
- [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character](https://sirupsen.com/books/feynman.md): 2013 by Richard P. Feynman
- [Tryghedsnarkomaner](https://sirupsen.com/books/tryghedsnarkomaner.md): 2012 by Vita Andersen
- [Hunger](https://sirupsen.com/books/hunger.md): 2012 by Knut Hamsun
- [The Old Man and the Sea](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md): 2011 by Ernest Hemingway
- [Hus og hjem](https://sirupsen.com/books/hus-og-hjem.md): 2011 by Helle Helle
- [Headhunters](https://sirupsen.com/books/headhunters.md): 2011 by Jo Nesbø
- [Crime and Punishment](https://sirupsen.com/books/crime-and-punishment.md): 2011 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- [Angels & Demons](https://sirupsen.com/books/angels-demons.md): 2010 by Dan Brown
- [Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby](https://sirupsen.com/books/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby.md): 2009 by Why The Lucky Stiff
- [Until I Find You](https://sirupsen.com/books/until-i-find-you.md): 2009 by John Irving
- [Revolution](https://sirupsen.com/books/revolution.md): 2009 by Jakob Ejersbo
- [Liberty](https://sirupsen.com/books/liberty.md): 2009 by Jakob Ejersbo
- [The World According to Garp](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-world-according-to-garp.md): 2008 by John Irving
- [The Da Vinci Code](https://sirupsen.com/books/da-vinci.md): 2008 by Dan Brown
- [The Hotel New Hampshire](https://sirupsen.com/books/the-hotel-new-hampshire.md): 2007 by John Irving