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- 17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: sive.rs/met/at-14
- 16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: sive.rs/met/at-13
- India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026 Want to meet? Email me: sive.rs/contact
- Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else in life is better the second time?
- Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0
- My life was changed by four sentences in four books : sive.rs/4s4b
- Geography is four-dimensional: sive.rs/4d
- 1993 communal internet shaped me: sive.rs/netizen
- I’m not autistic, but my heroes are.
- Since we moved from city to rural land, to a house where the bathroom and kitchen are outside, my boy observed: “This year there are way more full moons.”
- My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.”
- Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at sive.rs/book/Tribal
- Fascinating book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - sive.rs/book/Conscious19 - uses one true story, 19 times, of the laughing brain patient - sive.rs/u12 - in the format of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - sive.rs/book/WangWei - to explore the subject.
- Great book: Elephant in the Brain: sive.rs/book/BrainMotives You have hidden motives and subconscious incentives. Two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Instititutions do this too: wasteful because they’re serving hidden purposes no one acknowledges. Great insights throughout.
- People of India! My OCI + Airtel + HDFC has culminated in a massive achievement and rite of initiation. I have made my first UPI payment. I’m now unstoppable.
- “Purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.
- I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere: sive.rs/socials
- I love people. I love when they’re not around.
- Great book: “You’re Not Listening” by Kate Murphy. My notes: sive.rs/book/NotListening
- I highly recommend the book "Factfulness" by Hans Roling. My notes: sive.rs/book/Factfulness
- I’ve been offline 23 hours a day: sive.rs/off23
- Got my own ActivityPub server running at sive.rs/d though still super basic and testing
- The past is not true : sive.rs/pnt
- dashing dog, searching for purpose : sive.rs/pdog
- $575K of books sold. $575K to save lives. sive.rs/575k
- The joy and freedom of harmlessly upsetting social norms : sive.rs/nor
- Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship : sive.rs/xus
- the Michael Browne suits : sive.rs/suits
- Aim off-center to counter a bias : sive.rs/aim
- Thinking something nice about somebody? Tell them. sive.rs/nice
- 50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai : sive.rs/meet-chbg
- Explorers are bad leaders : sive.rs/exled
- Travelling just for the people : sive.rs/travp
- Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery. sive.rs/anon
- I want to lose every debate: sive.rs/led
- Conversations with Tyler Cowen: sive.rs/tyler
- Reading the Bible, start to finish: sive.rs/bible
- Who should I meet in Chennai and Bengaluru? sive.rs/meet-chbg
- My podcast is live again! Season 3. Very short episodes. sive.rs/podcast
- make believe : sive.rs/mb
- a daily run, part two : sive.rs/run2
- Static HTML comments: sive.rs/shc
- a daily run, part one : sive.rs/run
- Doubt explanations : sive.rs/confab
- shortest date, and ketchup : sive.rs/ketchup
- Added some GREAT new books to my book notes page: sive.rs/book (click “newest”, up top)
- New release: full-length videobook for “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE”: sive.rs/ymap
- interesting that the population of China, India, and Africa are each about 1.4 billion
- Try writing one sentence per line : sive.rs/1s
- The joke that changed my life : sive.rs/joke
- Find a good available .com domain: sive.rs/com
- Travel is best with young children : sive.rs/tk
- Short URLs: why and how : sive.rs/su
- Updated all four of my book pages, starting at the home page with the stack of books: sive.rs/
- Built a web app to help people translate my books. Used by over 300 translators, editors, and reviewers, to translate my books into 30 languages. Now it has a name: inchword.com/
- Why I left America : sive.rs/left
- Write plain text files : sive.rs/plaintext
- Database triggers to clean text inputs : sive.rs/clean1
- Generate unique random values directly in the database : sive.rs/rand1
- Database functions to wrap logic and SQL queries : sive.rs/api01
- Database trigger recalculates totals, for data integrity : sive.rs/recalc
- The best ideas I've found in the last 320+ books I've read: sive.rs/book
- Considerate book pricing: sive.rs/bp
- Parents of young (age 5-10) readers: We just finished reading the “HILO” comic books - which my boy’s librarian recommended - and it’s the best we’ve ever found. GREAT writing/story/twists/everything. www.juddspillowfort.com/hilo/ If you know another this good, please let me know.
- My newest and best book, “HOW TO LIVE - 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion”, is officially released and shipping worldwide now, exclusively through me: sive.rs/h
- How many pets do you have? sive.rs/pets
- Now that I’m done writing “How to Live”, I’m listening to music again! Starting with Ted Gioia’s great “Hundred Best Albums of 2020”: www.tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2020.html — buying them all on Bandcamp.
- If you do what most people do, you'll get what most people get.
- Nobody cares what you’re bad at, and neither should you.
- I'm a fan of: Ravel Boléro, Erika Lemay, Debussy, Black bean burrito, Ruby, PostgreSQL, OpenBSD, Vim, Blackcurrant black tea, New Zealand, silence.
- Just added twelve new book notes to my site: sive.rs/book
- Open-sourced all the code and contents of my sive.rs site: git.sr.ht/~sivers/sive.rs
- The Art of Living with Less Stress: www.youtube.com/watch?v=amS0u15AL14 - from sive.rs/relax
- My limited-edition signed hardcover book “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE” finally arrived from the printer today! Shipping next week. m.sive.rs/YMaP-4x.mp4 (All thanks to saeah.com/ who produced it!)
- “Your feelings are justified!” ← this is what everyone wants to hear
- Real question: What's the difference between feminism and anti-sexism?
- One of the best (and funniest) things I ever did was produce this album by “Captain T” : captaint.com/ + sive.rs/capt
- An open mind, like an open mouth, must eventually close on something.
- Sincere question: What non-obvious ways do you find or make BALANCE in your world?
- $250K books sold. $250K to save lives. sive.rs/250k
- Changed sivers.org to sive.rs because it's shorter. (No other reason. “.org” felt like unnecessary noise.)
- Fun interview with @shaneaparrish fs.blog/knowledge-project/derek-sivers/ I've been a fan (and subscriber) of his for years, so it was an honor to finally talk.
- “HELL YEAH OR NO”, my newest book, is available now at sive.rs/n
- “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE”, my new book, is available now at sive.rs/m
- Moved back to New Zealand for good, today.
- 8 years ago I spent the day in Singapore with my hero Kevin Kelly, then at the end he told me it was his 60th birthday. Today he posted this must-read gem: kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
- If you haven’t heard “Tango Til They’re Sore” by Tom Waits (from Rain Dogs) in a while, now’s a good time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmRzZX4dRSw
- Season 2 of my podcast is in full swing. Completely different than Season 1, it’s me being interviewed by many different hosts. Listen at sive.rs/podcast
- Sometimes the winds of change are a hurricane.
- I’ve answered 2100 emails in the last 48 hours. 4000 left. This is intense, but I’m thankful for the connection.
- My #1 most-gifted book is “The Third Ear” by Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Forever changes how you think of sound. www.amazon.com/dp/0805020071
- Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes. : sive.rs/mny
- I performed at Nara Dreamland with my circus for two weeks in 1992. Then it became this… metro.co.uk/2018/09/01/haunting-photos-capture-abandoned-nara-dreamland-theme-park-in-japan-7903779/
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist (now on podcast) : sive.rs/sakamoto + sive.rs/podcast
- Now on podcast : Sammy Cahn said thank you : sive.rs/sammy-cahn : sive.rs/podcast
- Posted to podcast : “Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage” : sive.rs/hi || sive.rs/podcast
- Experiments in music and life : sive.rs/eml
- podcast now also on YouTube : www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcE0XVmYoKM8gcT6nHNHDiK0rSjm8X6eb
- My podcast is launched : sive.rs/podcast (Each episode is VERY short, of course. You know how I am.)
- Writing daily, but posting when ready : sive.rs/nod
- How I got rich on the other hand : sive.rs/richand
- Podcast RSS generator in Ruby : gist.github.com/sivers/e3a90a742cfc0802ede9dbf553339174
- When in doubt, try the difference : sive.rs/trd
- Why experts are annoying : sive.rs/exan
- What you learn by travelling : sive.rs/trav1
- PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures : sive.rs/pg2
- Mastery school : sive.rs/masch
- Monthly self-expansion project : sive.rs/exex
- Living according to your hierarchy of values : sive.rs/vls1
- How to ask your mentors for help : sive.rs/ment
- sive.rs/random jumps to a different random article on my site every time. (Thanks to Dan Maldonado for the idea.)
- When you win the game, you stop playing : sive.rs/wtg
- Digital pollution : sive.rs/polut
- Cut out everything that’s not surprising : sive.rs/d22
- Heed your fears : sive.rs/gofear
- Daydreaming is my favorite pastime : sive.rs/daydream
- Anti-chameleon : sive.rs/antic
- Where we do and don’t want automation : sive.rs/autom
- Human nature to focus on the one bad thing : sive.rs/negz
- Back and forth between super-hot and super-cold : sive.rs/sauna
- Err on the side of action, to test theories : sive.rs/erra
- Blowing off work to play : sive.rs/hooky
- The joy and strategic wisdom of ignoring plans : sive.rs/ldn
- Tour -isms : sive.rs/isms
- To me, this is the most beautiful bike frame: surlybikes.com/bikes/straggler I love a horizontal top tube, and for the top, seat, and down tubes to be same thickness. Simple symmetry.
- Meta-considerate : sive.rs/metac
- Daydreaming the downside, for once : sive.rs/ddown
- Where to find the hours to make it happen : sive.rs/uncomf
- Your heroes show which way you’re facing : sive.rs/hf
- I'm hard to impress when it comes to tea, but “Singapore Breakfast” tea from T2 is the best tea I've had in YEARS. Get it if you can. www.t2tea.com/
- Don’t quote. Make it yours and say it yourself. sive.rs/dq
- Have a private email account : sive.rs/pe
- Future posthumous autobiography : sive.rs/abio
- Cross the world four times : sive.rs/4
- What I did belies why : sive.rs/ww
- Would you make your art if you were the last person on earth? : sive.rs/tp3
- Travel without social praise : sive.rs/tp2
- Travel without a phone to be in the moment : sive.rs/tp1
- My old clothes don’t fit : sive.rs/clothes
- Hearing Arvo Pärt “Für Alina” for the first time and loving it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCr_Alina (Took 2+ listens to slow down my inner clock and appreciate.) Thanks to joellaviolette.com/ for the tip.
- I’ve answered 811 emails in the last 5 days. This might be unsustainable.
- doors and windows and what’s real : sive.rs/dw
- I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not.
- Instead of many hours nudging things with a mouse in Pro Tools or Cubase, I wrote a little Ruby script to use sox to programmatically generate it. So much better: gist.github.com/sivers/b900bf4004e148b32a5ddf3fffbe3a1c
- Just finished recording the audiobook for “Hell Yeah or No”. It's really good. I'm excited. sive.rs/n
- Looked up origin of the word “seesaw”. It’s imitating French “ci-ça”, meaning “this-that”. ♥ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw
- I just finished my next book: “Hell Yeah or No”. sive.rs/n Get on my private email list if interested: sive.rs/list
- Loving with your head is like running with your hands.
- New notes from two books on Artificial Intelligence. One good, one great. sive.rs/book/SurvivingAI + sive.rs/book/Life30
- I’ve moved from New Zealand to Oxford England : sive.rs/ox1 (Email me if you want to meet up anywhere in Europe.)
- Settling in to Oxford, England : sive.rs/now
- Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals : sive.rs/dj
- Must-read book for those over 60. Should-read for those over 40: sive.rs/book/BrainRulesAging
- Three new book notes, including the great “Atomic Habits” : sive.rs/book
- Subtract : sive.rs/subtract
- (updated) Unlearning : sive.rs/unlearning
- Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes you to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting.
- The Art of Selfishness : sive.rs/aos
- The code to my sites and database are now mirrored on GitHub: github.com/sivers Use anything you like.
- You don't need confidence, just contribution. sive.rs/contrib
- My definition of success: grantpirosblog.com/a-definition-of-success/ (thanks to Grant Piros for putting it succinctly)
- New notes on four great books: sive.rs/book - especially “Story of Philosophy” and “Courage to be Disliked”.
- Imagining a band: John Bonham, Jaco Pastorius, Bill Evans, Michael Hedges, and Björk, produced by Brian Eno.
- Unlearning : sive.rs/unlearning
- New books added to my book notes collection, plus a search box. Total of 250 books now. See new FAQ: sive.rs/bfaq
- Why I deleted Facebook : sive.rs/facebook
- My writing process : sive.rs/7
- (for musicians) — Be an extreme character: sive.rs/evers
- My “Hell Yeah or No” in the New York Times : www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/smarter-living/if-its-not-a-100-yes-its-a-no.html
- Get specific! sive.rs/get-specific
- What it means to be resourceful : sive.rs/res (new version)
- If they wish I would have said a little more, I said just the right amount.
- Rock stars have a boss? sive.rs/noboss
- Never wait : sive.rs/neverwait
- About me: sive.rs/about
- Unlikely places and untangled goals : sive.rs/unun
- “The opposite of feminism is ignorance.” I like this: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/world/europe/iceland-gender-equality-women-political-leaders.html
- I’m doing this amazing iOS course: www.udemy.com/course/ios-13-app-development-bootcamp/ HIGHLY recommend. @yu_angela is a great teacher.
- How to Read a Book : sive.rs/book/HowToReadABook
- Just realized that none of my friends or family have a TV.
- What are the odds of that? sive.rs/odds
- Parenting : Who is it really for? sive.rs/pa
- To hone your writing, hire a translator : sive.rs/tra
- Idea: a collection of photos of the tiny source of each of the world’s biggest rivers.
- Actions, not words, reveal our real values : sive.rs/arv
- Ego is the enemy : sive.rs/ego
- Updated my OpenBSD page to 6.1 : sive.rs/openbsd (6.1 is better and faster than ever.)
- Great new book notes just posted from Seth Godin, Derren Brown, Ryan Holiday, and more. Go to sive.rs/book then click “newest”.
- Think like a bronze medalist, not silver : sive.rs/bronze
- Art is useless, and so am I : sive.rs/useless
- I thought it’d be funny to make a news outlet that’s just “Everything You Don’t Need to Know”, but then realized that’s all news is, anyway.
- I've done nothing but Esperanto since Christmas. I love it, and love being single-focused.
- Spent 55 hours this month learning Esperanto. Built these tools to help: github.com/sivers/langdb Usable for any language. Enjoy.
- So excited about what I'm doing now : sive.rs/now Learning so much.
- Quitting something you love: sive.rs/quit
- What I'm doing now : sive.rs/now (updated today)
- I'm a solitary socialite : sive.rs/soso
- Spent 2 riveted hours tonight doing lernu.net/en/kurso/nakamura section 1. First time with Esperanto ever. What a cool language!
- In 2016, I answered 30,904 emails from 11,971 people. Here are the answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions : sive.rs/faq
- How to do what you love and make good money : sive.rs/balance
- Deleted Google+, too. Keeping twitter.com/sivers and facebook.com/sivers That's enough.
- Just deleted my LinkedIn account. Man that felt good. Never used it. Having it active felt like a lie. Should I delete G+ next?
- I'm hiring a creative illustrator : sive.rs/hiring
- Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate) : sive.rs/tilt
- In Singapore until the NZ quakes stop.
- We'll see.... sive.rs/horses
- Only dead fish go with the flow.
- Now update : sive.rs/now
- Added five new book notes: sive.rs/book Highlight is sive.rs/book/NotFuck
- Two unexpected phone calls. Best post I've read in a long time: ecstatically.live/2016/08/22/two-unexpected-phone-calls/
- “gerbil” is a yucky-sounding word. “monkey” makes me smile.
- Why are you doing? sive.rs/why
- OpenBSD 6.0 : why and how : sive.rs/openbsd
- I'm a very slow thinker : sive.rs/slow
- “Ego is the Enemy” is a great book with such an important point. I wish everyone would read it. sive.rs/book/EgoEnemy
- Keep earning your title, or it expires : sive.rs/expire
- When you're extremely un-motivated : sive.rs/unmo
- Disconnect : sive.rs/dc
- Don't add your 2 cents : sive.rs/2c
- On a hopeless crusade to correct those who say they'll “revert” back to my email. Werewolves revert to humans. People *reply* to emails.
- 7 new books on my book summaries : sive.rs/book (click "newest", up top). A few great ones.
- Someone just called me “a not-for-profit Dear Abby for the internet generation”. Answering strangers' emails 4-6 hours a day, I agree.
- Debussy “Claire de Lune” moving air in a way that makes my chest change its pattern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvo_iOuSck
- Possible futures : sive.rs/futures (with bonus in comments)
- SQL awesomeness gets me so damn inspired: blog.jooq.org/2016/04/25/10-sql-tricks-that-you-didnt-think-were-possible/
- My 200+ book notes & reviews, now with updated ratings. Top recommendations up top: sive.rs/book
- I sound strange because I’m singing the counter-melody : sive.rs/counter
- I split sive.rs/d1 into separate pages because people were not noticing the category names.
- Do this. Directives - part 1 : sive.rs/d1
- Don’t start a business until people are asking you to : sive.rs/asking
- A relationship is like where you live. Your happiness is like the weather.
- Funniest review of my book: “I call BS on this book and its author. Nobody is dumb enough to…” (…names 2 of the many dumb things I did.) www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1BA4NUYO3VRJ/
- Wow. James Altucher pulled some interesting insights out of our interview. Read the article first before listening: www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/03/ep-159-derek-sivers-zen-master-entrepreneurship/
- Why I don’t promote : sive.rs/nopr
- Moved all my code to Gitlab: gitlab.com/u/sivers (nothing against Github, but it creeps me out when everyone uses the same company)
- Happy, Smart, and Useful : sive.rs/hsu
- Assume men and women are the same : sive.rs/mw
- A warning to anyone receiving advice : sive.rs/advice
- After great Tim Ferriss interview with Seth Godin - fourhourworkweek.com/2016/02/10/seth-godin/ - noticed that when I interviewed Tim in 2008, we talked about Seth: sive.rs/2008-08-tim-ferriss
- Disappointed in the number of followers/fans of your creative work? See vimeo.com/151128399
- Over-compensate to compensate : sive.rs/compensate (with cute illustration)
- Added 5 new book notes. 2 great. 2 very good. sive.rs/book Click “date” up top to see newest.
- How to take a compliment: sive.rs/thx
- Belgium pride: “Papaoutai” by Stromae. Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc then www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3p43-Pxd6k
- Why I don't want stuff: sive.rs/gifts
- Updated for 2016+: “Should you learn programming?” sive.rs/prog & “How to learn JavaScript” sive.rs/learn-js
- Re-wrote musicthoughts.com/ from Ruby+Sinatra to static HTML, generated by a Ruby script. Fun!
- Switch strategies : sive.rs/switch
- Answered 4778 emails in the past 44 days. Learned a lot. Time to start writing publicly again.
- I've been answering about 150 emails a day for the last 30 days. Did 250 today. Each one with big questions about life/career/etc. Oh my.
- This is probably the best talk I've ever done: sive.rs/wds (40 minutes)
- The story about nownownow.com : sive.rs/now3
- Selling a company is like getting divorced, graduating college, and winning the lottery on the same day.
- “Never tell your problems to anyone. 80% don’t care, and the other 20% are glad you have them.” - Lou Holtz, revised
- Everyone with a /now page gets a profile: nownownow.com/ Click any (+) then keep browsing. So fascinating. Can't tear myself away.
- See nownownow.com/ : home of the /now pages. Fun to browse. So many interesting ones.
- If you liked my “Keep your goals to yourself” TED talk (youtu.be/NHopJHSlVo4), you’ll love this: youtu.be/V68SMFrpFt8
- The /now page movement : sive.rs/nowff
- What happened when a guy in Guatemala read my book and emailed me: medium.com/@chrsaravia/the-internet-contacting-your-idols-and-being-grateful-51a108d28aed
- I live in the windiest city in the world: www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/15/where-world-windiest-city-spoiler-alert-chicago-wellington
- 6 new books at sive.rs/book Top picks: sive.rs/book/OnWritingWell + sive.rs/book/RollerCoaster
- Relax for the same result : sive.rs/relax
- Is there a course like this for hip hop? www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and-understand-great-music-3rd-edition.html
- Musicians: if you get an email "Seeking Your Music For Radio Airplay", saying they are partnered with me: No. I am not. Never heard of them.
- Saying no to everything else: sive.rs/no2
- My book “Anything You Want” is released worldwide on Portfolio/Penguin today: sive.rs/a (I recommend the 90-minute audiobook.)
- Business-owners focusing on money is like car-owners focusing on their odometer number. If you think it’s the point, you should look up.
- Learning Elm using pragmaticstudio.com/elm & pragmaticstudio.com/elm-signals Extra appealing since I want to learn Haskell.
- Curious where I'm going with the “just tell me what to do” sive.rs/2do idea? See springismylove.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/derek-sivers-purge-the-vampires/ & videos.theconference.se/derek-sivers-how-to-like-people
- I am such a Vi Hart fan: www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
- “Just tell me what to do”: compressing books into directives: sive.rs/2do
- Don’t worry about your ambition, about stepping on people’s toes. You’re just teaching them how to dance.
- What’s the best way to achieve a new goal? www.npr.org/2015/08/14/431540456/what-s-the-best-way-to-achieve-a-new-goal
- That great No Diggity riff youtu.be/3KL9mRus19o is from Bill Withers Grandma's Hands youtu.be/IxjNauWYFfc
- Best instrument seen in Musical Instruments Museum mim.be/ is Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Armonica youtu.be/8D9BBMDWoNM?t=20s
- “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” — Voltaire
- I sponsored the OpenBSD port of Elixir 1.0.5 & Erlang 18: cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/elixir/
- Must-read: “Easy vs Hard”: www.sandpapersuit.com/2012/11/easy-vs-hard.html
- Attention New Zealand: tedxwellington.com/blog/2015/05/25/tedxwellington-2015-date-announcement-call-for-speakers-performers/ Looking for interesting ideas, no matter who from. Please sign up soon. I'm curating & coaching.
- 3 new book notes: sive.rs/book (sort by date to see newest or rating to see best)
- When I write a tech blog post it feels like: ME: “I like doing this.” WORLD: “No! Idiot! You’re wrong! I don’t like doing that!” ☺
- (for programmers) Simplify: move code into database functions: sive.rs/pg
- Her: “I’ll need a few weeks to process before I’m ready to move on.” Me: “For you a few weeks tends to take about a day.” Her: “Good point.”
- She is a bird. He is a tree. She asks him to fly. But when he can’t, she doesn’t understand why.
- I know more people than I know.
- Extra-sad to not be home in Singapore today. R.I.P. to one of the strongest leaders the world’s ever known. www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/asia/lee-kuan-yew-founding-father-and-first-premier-of-singapore-dies-at-91.html
- “My output was being sourced from my weaknesses, not my strengths.” Good insight & question to ask yourself: tynan.com/firstthing
- Just back from 5 days in paradise: www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/fiordland/northern-fiordland/milford-track/
- Getting out of a bad place: sive.rs/bad
- Why I've been quiet online lately: sive.rs/boring
- Treat yourself to 3 minutes of some of the most interesting music you’ll ever hear. The Bulgarian women’s choir: youtu.be/mrcgDhpS3uo
- People who say “day job” are my kind of people.
- What's the opposite of effort? (Real question. Any suggestions?)
- Mark Manson is one of the best writers I know: markmanson.net/best-articles
- If you liked my “First Follower / How to Start a Movement” TED talk, see this short vid: rowansimpson.com/2014/11/27/the-quiet-ones/
- Great new book about smart shortcuts to success: “Smartcuts” sive.rs/book/Smartcuts
- 5 new books added to my book notes page: sive.rs/book
- Awww... really nice compliment: www.quora.com/What-are-some-blogs-worth-following/answer/Shobhit-Bakliwal
- Two months ago removed snacks from the house, and started eating only when actually hungry. No other changes. Lost 30 pounds so far.
- How to change or build your career: sive.rs/career
- Of the 185 books I've read in the last 7 years, this one has stuck with me the most: sive.rs/book/TimeParadox (email me when you finish it)
- Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset. Crucial to recognize the difference in yourself & others: sive.rs/mindset
- “Don’t divide the world into the weak and strong, or successes and failures. Divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.” - B Barber
- Sadly selling my paradise house in New Zealand. I'll miss it a lot: nelson.nzsothebysrealty.com/nelson-properties/?Location=37-Shelbourne-Street-Nelson&PropertyID=2413
- Awesome customer service from a guy named Thor at Amazon: i.imgur.com/IDFkz82.png
- I'll be at TEDxWellington this Sunday. tedxwellington.com/ If you see me, come say hi. Gotta get to know my new home.
- Moved to Wellington (Te Aro)
- One more reason to spend a few months (or years) in Ubud, Bali: www.hubud.org/ See also: woodegg.com/id
- Some great new additions to my list of book notes: sive.rs/book?sort=date (Click “Sort by rating” to see top recommendations.)
- On our 3rd date, years ago, my wife said her dream was to see the Moorish architecture of southern Spain. Today we leave for Granada. ☺
- Seth Godin's birthday. Looking back at his projects over the years. So inspiring: sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/07/thirty-years-of-projects.html
- The philosophy of great customer service: sive.rs/cs
- Leaving for Belgium now, through the end of July. Email me if you want to meet up.
- “A good day is when no one shows up, and you don’t have to go anywhere.” - Burt from Burt’s Bees youtu.be/xBfMtEebvN0
- AMAZING presentation "Emerging Global Web": woodegg.s3.amazonaws.com/yiibu.pdf Makes my heart race. This is why I do woodegg.com/
- Loving what I used to hate: sive.rs/hate (Tom Waits, Indonesia, and weight lifting)
- I've never been captivated by dance until now. Wow: youtu.be/2vjPBrBU-TM (Maddie Ziegler in Sia's Chandelier video)
- My new 19-minute talk (after 2 years of improvements) is The Meaning of Life: sive.rs/ml
- The power of the soundtrack: youtu.be/1IAXrxlDK6c Brilliant.
- 11 new book notes added: sive.rs/book (click “date”, up top, to show newest)
- Change careers like Tarzan : sive.rs/tarzan
- What if you didn't need money or attention? sive.rs/full
- I'm not bad at sleeping. I'm just really good at staying awake.
- Impulsively skipping TED to go to Iceland tomorrow instead!! sive.rs/hellyeah (I re-fuel my soul in Iceland. Favorite place in the world. So excited.)
- The best thing I ever created: www.shutterstock.com/blog/the-best-thing-i-ever-created-derek-sivers
- Transcript of my “office hours” chat about outsourcing, profit, publishing, and having an unfair advantage: drt.fm/office-hours/derek-sivers/
- Great video interview (or download audio) with Bob Baker: www.diycareermanifesto.com/2014/02/derek-sivers-interview.html
- Audio interview. Good conversation. See the overview, and download it for later listening: www.enchantinglawyer.com/journey-self-employed-successful-business-owner-derek-sivers/#more-520
- How will this game end? sive.rs/game
- Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. sive.rs/mirror
- Nice long audio interview at LeanPub about music and Wood Egg: blog.leanpub.com/2014/01/derek-sivers.html
- Understanding Vietnam : sive.rs/vn14 (1st chapter of my “Vietnam 2014” book)
- Understanding Indonesia : sive.rs/id14 (1st chapter of my “Indonesia 2014” book)
- Understanding Singapore : sive.rs/sg14 (1st chapter of my “Singapore 2014” book)
- Nice MP3 interview about independent/DIY book publishing: winningedits.com/authormba-podcast/#sivers
- Understanding Japan : sive.rs/jp14 - insightful look at Japanese culture.
- Go to sive.rs/quality again to see Benjamin’s top 2 comments, clarifying the point better than I did.
- Interview with me on Elance about Asia & my Wood Egg books: www.elance.com/q/blog/expanding-asia-here%E2%80%99s-priceless-advice-asia-2014-author-derek-sivers
- Same word. Different places? Different meanings. sive.rs/quality
- Wood Egg 2014 books are on sale now. See sive.rs/we14 then woodegg.com/
- Print paper books? Refuse? Ideas? See theclimatemessage.com/print-paper-books-refuse-ideas/
- Jac Holzman : sive.rs/jac
- “When you are convinced that you alone are right, you are most likely to be deeply wrong.” — Malcom Brown
- This beautiful short article remembering Milt Olin made me cry again: causesandeffectmyyearofgivingdaily.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-final-ride.html
- “Why am I here?” sive.rs/here
- Why my code and ideas are public: sive.rs/ws
- OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again : sive.rs/milt
- Confirmed I'll be at TED 2014 in Vancouver, and TED Global 2014 in Rio de Janeiro. Email me to meet up: [email protected]
- 2014 Wood Egg books almost done. Opinions or suggestions for book covers? (License a photo of yours?) woodegg.com/covers
- New book notes from "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams: sive.rs/book/HowToFail
- “If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.” — Elmore Leonard
- Every smart person I know has read “Paradox of Choice”: sive.rs/book/ParadoxOfChoice
- Memorizing underscorejs.org/ using ankisrs.net/ like this: sive.rs/srs
- "I Forgot My Phone" video is brilliant & powerful: youtu.be/OINa46HeWg8
- Forbes put me in "25 Entrepreneurs To Follow" list with Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Craig Newmark and other bigshots. www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2013/07/31/25-entrepreneurs-to-follow-on-twitter/
- Rewrite of sive.rs/ as generated static site. Code section near bottom has open source Ruby code behind it, if interested.
- #1 top-selling nonfiction book on Kindle today. Had to screenshot the moment. sive.rs/images/sivers-amazon-2013-07-19.png
- My book "Anything You Want" is #1 in all 3 of its categories on Amazon! sive.rs/a sive.rs/images/sivers-amazon-2013-07-18.png
- Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan : sive.rs/robust
- Why my baby's photos aren't online: We should be able to choose when we are ready to have an online presence, not have it forced upon us.
- Anyone else think of music this way? youtu.be/Av_Us6xHkUc I tend to draw in the air like this, as I sing or listen to anything.
- Story behind Wood Egg (my new company): sive.rs/eg
- Some will always say you're wrong: sive.rs/wrong
- Think the Chinese are just copycats? Check out these DIY inventors: www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/chinese-diy-inventions/100511
- Ahhh... a must-listen for guitarists. Joe Pass solo jazz guitar: youtu.be/JFqiDcvRW2Y
- No rules in this game: sive.rs/360
- Tiny 4-question interview with me: onepercentcollective.org/derek-sivers-generosity-talks
- New Ramen Music issue: ramenmusic.com/issue-11/3187ca6d61 Great format. Great curation. Great service. I highly recommend subscribing (or submitting your music!)
- Brilliantly awesome and so true: the McDonald's Theory: medium.com/what-i-learned-building/9216e1c9da7d
- CD Baby nostalgia: youtu.be/zzFfQbSeSyg?t=1m47s Hadn't seen this video in 8 years. Great warehouse footage.
- Seeking inspiration? See sive.rs/io
- My cousin had twin baby boys yesterday. They named them Tomahawk and Skookum. No joke. Those are their real names. I'm so proud. ☺
- Skateboard from Sydney to Woolongong in one day? www.rotub.me/blog/my-skate-of-mind.html We've all got a wonderful ridiculous thing we've been wanting to do.
- What book impacted you the most? See rise365.com/pivotalbooks/
- The Great Movies: sive.rs/ebert2
- Awesome life-changing project: blog.ted.com/2013/03/27/my-year-of-ted-how-54-talks-changed-a-life/ Reminder: it's not what you read or watch. It's what you consistently DO about it.
- Got instrumental music with American Country feel, similar to Horse Whisperer soundtrack? Email indie filmmakers [email protected]
- Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice: sive.rs/learn-js
- Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage: sive.rs/hi
- Sing like you, not them. Design like you, not them. Nice analogy: ninjasandrobots.com/i-cant-sing
- I don't tweet about food, but if I did, it would be laksa : thesilverchef.blogspot.sg/2013/01/top-10-best-singapore-food-of-2012.html
- Changing my operating system: sive.rs/os
- Please try musicthoughts.com/ - especially language links at bottom. Works OK? Looks OK? Any feedback appreciated.
- Patience. Persistence. More patience. More persistence. Must-read: jeffjlin.com/2013/02/23/ang-lee-and-the-uncertainty-of-success/
- The secret of success is to never quite succeed.
- This: benyu.org/connections-dont-build-things is the perfect follow-up to sive.rs/xn and I totally agree with it.
- I'm at Webstock in New Zealand for the rest of the week. Come say hi if you see me, or email to meet up. www.webstock.org.nz/13/
- It's all who you know? : sive.rs/xn
- Driving a car for the first time in years, means listening to the radio for the first time in years, means discovering I like Taylor Swift.
- Just finished an amazing book about Willpower : sive.rs/book/WillpowerInstinct Highly recommended!
- Focus, entertain, or both? : sive.rs/boring
- Prove it! breckyunits.com/prove_it (Words don't prove anything. Just actions.)
- Listen, try this: For the rest of the day, say "Listen." before every sentence.
- Wow! This summary of my book made me want to read it again: www.actionablebooks.com/summaries/anything-you-want/ :-)
- Yes, you should learn basic programming: sive.rs/prog
- Animation of my “Don't Announce Your Goals” talk: vimeo.com/55495626 - by Luca Cioni from Italy
- Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software: sive.rs/srs
- Learning JavaScript from the great "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers" - goo.gl/1Y6ro - and eloquentjavascript.net/
- Everything is my fault: sive.rs/my-fault
- You don't have to be local : sive.rs/local
- Did all Ruby Koans today - rubykoans.com/ - Wonderful refresher. Highly recommended. Thanks to brilliant @jimweirich
- Find people on Facebook with same name as you. Imitate their photo. Then send friend request. Brilliant! imgur.com/a/IqXWj
- 2 inspiring friends I'm actively thankful to know: Kevin Kelly www.kk.org/about-me.php + Alexis Ohanian about.me/alexis
- I can go without food and water longer than I can go without solitude.
- Spoke at Dynamite Circle conference in Bangkok www.tropicalmba.com/innercircle/ Anyone I met there, please email me to keep in touch.
- 20 years ago I saw Chiang Mai on the map and decided to go someday. Today I'm here. Some goals take time.
- Speaking at INK in India, today: www.inktalks.com/conferences/ink2012
- New book notes posted at sive.rs/book?sort=date (click "rating" header to sort with highest recommendations at top)
- Why I don't have [like] buttons all over my site: informationarchitects.net/blog/sweep-the-sleaze/
- In Taiwan for my first time. Absolutely love it. Speaking at TEDxTaipei tomorrow. tedxtaipei.com/
- I updated sive.rs/comfort with the scariest moment of my life: forgetting my lines backstage at TED.
- sive.rs/donkey = www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120902.gif = ☺☺☺
- Just finished amazing FunConf. Great conversations. If we met there, please email me to keep in touch: [email protected] #funconf
- Week in Iceland. Highlight: 6am walk through Snæfellsnes lava canyon. Found silent grassy patch & sat through sunrise. Iceland is my style.
- Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone. sive.rs/comfort
- Good interview with me about freedom, indie, future of music, etc. Free PDF: magcloud.com/browse/issue/424234
- Keeping all my tweets at sive.rs/tweets
- Би монгол хэл сурч байна. (I'm learning Mongolian. Going to Mongolia tomorrow.)
- So reassuring to watch a master at their craft - any craft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0 Imagine if everyone put this attention into their work.
- Stumped? Try just looking at it: heydave.org/post/27681989546/the-just-look-at-it-hack-to-problem-solving Maybe if already looked at it, try listening to it. Avoid trying to solve.
- Studying the Icelandic language with a teacher, in preparation for an August visit there.
- Speaking at TEDx Kuala Lumpur next week. @tedxkl Advance article: biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/6/30/business/11569316&sec=business
- The only true voyage of discovery is not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes. - Marcel Proust
- Today my hero is @MohitPawar for his amazing work with woodegg.com/in + more. So so impressed with this man. mohitpawar.com/about/
- All of my talks on life, business, music, philosophy, etc: sive.rs/presentations Enjoy!
- Speed through a 90-day Asia trip, at 1 second per day: youtu.be/OjD995hJKOM Brilliant format to quickly share vacation experience.
- Separate REST JSON API server and client? stackoverflow.com/q/10941249/1031790?stw=1
- Programmers who have made a REST API separate from JS/HTML client, I'd love your advice, here: stackoverflow.com/questions/10941249/separate-rest-json-api-server-and-client Thanks!
- My life is simple: one inbox: [email protected] I almost never check Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. Just email. Reach me there.
- RT @AmberRubarth: Digging into good convos with one of my favorite humans Derek Sivers instagr.am/p/LTpDfqs8NJ/
- Candy Chang inspires me more than anyone. See candychang.com/i-wish-this-was/ + candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/
- RT @NextBankAsia: Considering a 'Next Startup/Small Business Bank Asia' inspired by @sivers NBA talk. Who's for it? Massive opportunity there.
- Smart people don't think others are stupid: sive.rs/ss
- Watched "Tree Of Life" movie & started crying like I haven't in years. Maybe great movie or maybe just right time. Either way... oof!
- RT @ladyxtel: First Expletive Award at #NBASG12 goes to @sivers. Loving how he said fuckyeah in his presentation with pizzazz
- RT @viviansessoms: Me with Ryuichi Sakamoto (Victor Bailey, Manu Katche & Derek Sivers in there too!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VkeTquhEE
- My quotes have been posterized: strikingtruths.com/anything-you-want/ (for real motivation, just add image of mountain climbing or kitten cllimbing tree) ☺
- RT @arsenio: @sivers The Baraka 'sequel' is finally coming soon: laughingsquid.com/samsara-new-non-narrative-film-by-ron-fricke/
- Lush review of Baraka - one of my fave movies: blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2012/04/the-ultimate-expression-of-humanity.html
- Advice on moving to Los Angeles : sive.rs/la
- Use flashcards to help remember programming lessons: www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html (I do this already. Thrilled to see someone write it up.)
- In New Zealand South Island for the rest of the month. (Dunedin/ChCh/Nelson/etc.) Email me ([email protected]) if you'd like to meet up.
- RT @jfarmer: In a startup, the hard thing isn't killing bad ideas. It's killing all the good ideas you shouldn't do right now.
- OnlyIndie looks like a very smart way to buy or publish ebooks: www.onlyindie.com/
- I'm still learning this lesson: sive.rs/quirks It's really hard to just do things the normal way (stock Rails) instead of my own.
- sive.rs/semi-expert = flightfox.com/ = !!!!
- Here's my wild life: asleep by 11pm, wake at 6am to learn jQuery at codeschool.com/ Riveting. Love it. (not sarcastic)
- I guess I'm doing an "Ask Me Anything" in the comments to this post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013 (original article linked at top)
- 10 questions, 10 answers: derek.sivers.spillsthebeans.com/
- College students and recent grads who want to do big things (+ spend July in Boulder) @BoldAcademy is now open: tumblr.heyamberrae.com/bold-academy
- Going to SxSW? Make sure you see this first: sive.rs/sxsw 65 people sharing their best advice on getting the most from SxSW.
- Favorite TED talk: a scholar of traditional children's games: youtu.be/hRVrm3svaUk (click [cc] translate button). Want to go to his school!
- “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― Oscar Wilde
- What is your comfort zone? www.whatismycomfortzone.com/
- “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” - Abraham Lincoln
- "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." - Gore Vidal
- All talk of paradise only starts when something has been lost.
- "If there's a fear of falling, the only safety is deliberately jumping." - Carl Jung
- "Only a fool never changes his mind." - Freddie Laker.
- My hero Harry Beckwith just posted this one about "you": www.beckwithpartners.com/2012/01/how-to-engage-someone/ ☺
- Dumb mistakes that turned out smart: www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-smartest-dumb-thing-i-ever-did.html
- Media industry's takeover of creativity is the real piracy: radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/on-pirates-and-piracy.html "How dare you terrorize the whole world?"
- Finally learning JavaScript, after all these years.
- "Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they just stopped thinking." - Wilson
- RT @muz4now: When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely. ~ Florent Schmitt #music #quote
- I completely agree with everything here: rdegges.com/how-i-program-stuff - especially the isolation/introvert stuff.
- RT @benjaminspall: NEW — Lessons Learnt from Derek Sivers and Thomas Edison liferapture.com/derek-sivers-thomas-edison/
- What do you hate NOT doing? sive.rs/hatenot
- One time, at band camp... youtu.be/gqG4oSfQYIY
- Get to know your friends & family better: ask wide-open questions. www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unthinking/201112/how-know-another-person (Makes better conversation, too.)
- Great 3-hour hang with Dan Andrews aka @TropicalMBA, in Singapore for his first time.
- Stevie Wonder "Superstition" rehearsal is even funkier than the album version: youtu.be/wDZFf0pm0SE (love outro at 3:50 too)
- Proudly exclude some customers to define your niche. Great example? Read sive.rs/proudly-exclude-most then see youtu.be/1L3eeC2lJZs
- Best book of 2011? www.brigittelyons.com/2011/12/best-book-2011/ (According to the brilliant @brigittelyons, that is.)
- Without longing, we are lost.
- "Good taste is the enemy of creativity." - Pablo Picasso
- Word for the day: metamotivation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation (a worthy goal)
- Friends from memory: sive.rs/friends
- Strange people still leave comments on this 2-year-old post: sive.rs/super-power (skip article. read comments starting at 38.)
- Pursuing a meaningful life. Nice distinctions: blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/05/is_a_well_lived_live_worth_anything.html
- Best way to learn is to teach. Start by teaching yourself. Take notes! swombat.com/2011/12/11/taking-notes
- My ultimate minimalist hardware and software: derek.sivers.usesthis.com/
- Android developer: I'll pay for a few hours of making me a VERY simple app. I watch your screen+chat while you work. Email [email protected]
- The only explanation you ned for doing anything : "Because it's fun!" phpadvent.org/2011/because-its-fun-by-derek-sivers
- Got a startup idea? I'll be mentoring for incubator JFDI - part of TechStars in Singapore. 2 weeks left to apply. Go to bootcamp.jfdi.asia/
- Singapore English = Singlish. Info, examples, and debate: youtu.be/jG5Gr-rjEWY (I agree with girl at 05:00 + YouTube comments.)
- RT @shauntrennery: Read 80% of @sivers' "Anything You Want" on the plane home last night. Best to-the-point entrepreneurial book I've read sive.rs/a
- I've never been bored when alone. Only times I've been bored, it's because I was stuck with other people. Clear sign I'm an introvert, huh?
- The co-op business model: share whatever you've got. sive.rs/sharing
- 232 sand dollars: sive.rs/232
- Very worthy of a short pause in your day to appreciate this beautiful world: The National Geographic Photo Contest: www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/national-geographic-photo-contest-2011/100187/
- Find a community, learn what they love, and build something for them. It's not passive. blog.thestartuptoolkit.com/2011/11/what-i-learned-from-a-month-of-blogging-and-250k-visits/ (by @robfitz)
- I'm convinced that Colin Charles - @bytebot - is the most powerful man in Malaysia. Thanks for all your help, Colin.
- I keep sending people to this great Jason Fried article: How to get good at making money: www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-business-advice-from-jason-fried_Printer_Friendly.html
- If you are both a developer and a musician who wants to beta a good open source tool for your site, please email me: [email protected]
- Snake under dinner table last night. Bats overhead. This morning, a monkey stole a muffin off my plate as I was eating. I love Malaysia.
- The order in which I'd tackle life: tynan.com/stepsoflife (best article I've read in a long time. highly recommended.)
- Conference in Cambodia 3 days ago, Singapore today, Brunei tomorrow, Malaysia on Friday. I guess I really live in Asia now.
- It's not who you share with, but who you share as. People are multi-faceted. www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4chans_chris_poole_facebook_google_are_doing_it_wr.php Brilliant.
- Funny how some days you wake up just OVERFLOWING with love and apprecation for your friends, family, and life.
- RT @breezyskies: Derek Sivers on stage for why we need to fail. #TEDxPhnomPenh instagr.am/p/QLG-s/
- Speaking at TEDxPhnomPenh in Cambodia today. Any #tedxpp people please email me via sive.rs/ so we can keep in touch.
- In Cambodia now. Huge floods. See www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/worst-flooding-in-decades-swamps-thailand/100168/ 8-hour bike ride through them, water to chest. Awesome.
- Wow. Watch as you shoot into space in one minute: youtu.be/rvDqoxMUroA Best thing I've seen in a long time.
- World's leading Creative Class countries (by author of 'The Creative Class' book) www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/10/worlds-leading-creative-class-countries/228/ VERY surprised by #1!
- sive.rs/ <-- new design. Feedback? Please email me any suggestions.
- RT @brotherjwill: Get it while it's hot! - "Anything You Want" by @sivers is on sale 4 $1.99 on Kindle amzn.to/q4Z2Hq & more @ProjectDomino books 4cheap
- Finding new ways to deal with the world is better than over-training old patterns.
- Fascinating story of an American family who moves to Russia and puts their kids into a radically-cool Russian school. www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html?_r=1&ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=print
- Just realized “The Big Lebowski” title was not referring to The Dude.
- Love this cover by Yuna : youtu.be/C0dwfRt8LcI Interesting story: youtu.be/CgttH2GmK8Q Welcome home to KL, @yunamusic
- Great profile of my buddy @bpinaud from Rio, Brasil : adboardingpass.com/2011/09/06/introducing-bruno-pinaud-a-brazilian-creative-who-writes-directs-codes-and-has-a-mean-roundhouse-kick/
- Updated my book list: sive.rs/book I was giving too many 10-ratings, so I bumped all -1 except 4 all-time faves. Please read those.
- Great conversation with @lucian (Let's do it again soon.)
- Help give 2100 children the gift of hearing: givehearing.com
- RT @kamal: This is my favorite www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rCS8qpq20
- Anyone done INSEAD+Tsingua 'TIEMBA' program? Love to hear your thoughts. Please email: [email protected]
- Vulnerable is a tough gig.
- I am here: wikitravel.org/en/Borobudur
- For #tedxjakarta crowd: the “gut is smarter than head” info is from this great book: sive.rs/book/HowWeDecide
- Halo Jakarta! LOVED the #TEDxJakarta people I met yesterday. (Email me to keep in touch: [email protected]) Now going to Jogja for 4 days.
- RT @dmillerconj: "Why I love Derek Sivers' book" feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASoftwareStart-upGuy/~3/yIXCsZR1Jj8/why-i-love-derek-sivers-book.html #in
- 10 years of business experience shared in 47 minutes: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAAC8C0430D64F4D
- One small location change makes 20X improvement in business: justinjackson.ca/this-tree-guy-has-good-business-advice/
- Schools and parents heed this tale: samanthadouglas.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/give-100-percent/ “No more cheering for their actual accomplishments, just excitement for the grade.”
- My best advice for entrepreneurs in a 45-minute video: appsumo.com/sivers/
- 5 ways to listen better. I love this: www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better.html
- RT @kurtis_edward: if you are at all serious about a career in the music industry you need to read this book, it is incredible sive.rs/pdf #amazing
- Really nice review by @matthewemay : www.openforum.com/articles/guru-review-anything-you-want (love “The Reluctant Entrepreneur”)
- “Don't pursue goals that are easily achieved. Pursue what you can just barely achieve through your greatest efforts.” - Albert Einstein
- Can there be another CD Baby? www.musicthinktank.com/blog/question-can-there-be-another-cd-baby.html Great question from @rgmusicom. Your thoughts?
- Buying something doesn't give you status. NOT buying something gives you status. Because consumerism is abundant, but satiability is rare.
- Bucket list: Swim with whale sharks. See www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017167/Open-wide-The-diver-nearly-got-swallowed-whaleshark.html
- Here's what you should invent... blog.hanxiaogang.com/?p=38
- Wow. I have personally answered 4459 emails in the last 3 weeks. Most of my waking hours. Maybe I should play hard-to-get for a while?
- RT @DirkvanReenen: Just read the best business book, 4 yrs of College won't touch what these 75 pages will teach you. "Anything you Want" by Derek Sivers
- RT @mitchjoel: Are you an entrepreneur, startup and/or founder? @sivers tells it like it is. Read this: www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/anything-you-want/
- Startups, ideas, rejection, hard work, huge success. Why do it? Some thoughts: www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/anything-you-want/
- Musicians, please read: www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-manage-the-temptation-to-publish-yourself/ John Mayer talk @ Berklee about resisting distraction of social media + much more. Great advice.
- Is your job as valuable to you as the few years you have left in this life? If not, then stop. www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/should+probably+quit+your/5093085/story.html
- Jaw dropped: Humpback whale gives show after being saved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490#at=205
- Listening to Sufjan Stevens “Age of Adz” album over and over. asthmatickitty.com/the-age-of-adz
- You weren't meant to have a boss. paulgraham.com/boss.html (Read to the end.) Great analogy.
- You are whatever you pretend to be.
- The greatest music video ever made: youtu.be/ZPjjZCO67WI
- “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.” - Charlie Munger
- “Of all the sins, envy is easily the worst because you can't even have any fun with it. It's a total net loss.” - Charlie Munger
- "Sivers isn't a guy who figured it all out; he's just one who navigated the rapids and lived." :-) ! Thanks for the quote, @willsansbury
- Cute animation of one of my favorite little essays: “Hell Yeah or No”: vimeo.com/55495626
- You had me at “deep, bonging counterpoint”. No, you had me at “Bjork”. www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/arts/music/bjorks-biophilia-at-the-manchester-international-festival.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Wow.
- Yesterday went to Miyazaki's Ghibli museum. See www.kirainet.com/english/ghibli-museum/ Today saw Tokyo with @kirai. Awesome.
- New interviews you might like: sive.rs/i1106
- OK we're all allowed one proud little tweet like this, right? www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/2745/
- If it's not a hit, switch! youtu.be/mBlJVazr4A0
- 21 Inspiring Ideas for entrepreneurs: onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/57644/Anything-You-Want-21-Inspiring-Ideas-From-Derek-Sivers.aspx (best summary of my book)
- RT @ProjectDomino: Anything You Want is #39 in Amazon's Bestsellers list. Can you help us get @sivers in the top 10? amzn.to/DerekDominoAYW
- I miss the mob : youtu.be/GFRLSAPnIG0
- Forbes review of my book: “astonished with the sheer concentration of fresh insights on business and entrepreneurialism” blogs.forbes.com/michaelellsberg/2011/06/29/one-of-the-best-hours-youll-ever-spend/
- I finally wrote a book. Just released today. See announcement at sive.rs/ayw and book at sive.rs/a
- I finally wrote a book. Just released today. See announcement at sive.rs/ayw + book at sive.rs/a
- (I prefer Linux archlinux.org/ - and avoid being a part of anyone's end-to-end ecosystem for anything.)
- In 1998, admitting I don't use Microsoft products, I got a weird look. Now admitting I don't use Apple products, I get a VERY weird look.
- Korean grocery uses spare time and space at subway. Brilliant. youtu.be/nJVoYsBym88
- RT @ronen: The 3 months I worked next door to a chocolate factory, I had the most sex of any period in my life. Coincidence? #cocoapheremones
- Projecting meaning: sive.rs/meaning
- Business potential doesn't have to be overseas. States compared to countries: www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_us_states_countries www.economist.com/content/all_parities_china www.economist.com/content/indian-summary
- You don't understand something until you think it's obvious. mebassett.blogspot.com/2011/06/you-dont-understand-something-until-you.html
- Fish don't know they're in water: sive.rs/fish
- Classic: Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. Best 2½ minutes of TV: www.myvideo.de/watch/3412362/Chris_Farley_Interview_Paul_Mc_Cartney_SNL
- Great book on music promotion. Good to-do tips especially for those new to this: bob-baker.com/buzz/online-music-promotion.html
- Wow. My hero Charlie Munger, when asked how to make a perfect society, says to study Singapore: youtu.be/pVcKkPflmT8
- How to get good at making money: www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-business-advice-from-jason-fried.html Required reading for new entrepreneurs.
- #echelon2011 If you want my slides from my talk this morning (or just to meet), email me: [email protected]
- 3200km ÷ 5km/hr ÷ 12hrs/day = 53 days to walk from bottom to top of India. Hmmm...
- I LOVE a different point of view. Here's a hula hoop from the hoop's perspective: youtu.be/3GVrO1VYAOI
- My interview with Celestine Chua, with fun photos: celestinechua.com/blog/interview-cd-baby/
- Love these photos of CD Baby in 1999 in my Woodstock house: www.jpfolks.com/ECRoadTrip00/ECpages/cdbaby.html taken by jpfolks.com
- ramenmusic.com : Very curated, beautifully presented music. So impressed, I just bought lifetime subscription. Highly recommended.
- RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things.
- See ramenmusic.com : Very curated, beautifully presented music. So impressed, I just bought lifetime subscription. Highly recommended.
- This is the answer to the "I need a technical co-founder" question I get daily: lederhosenlabs.com/2011/05/31/technical-co-founders-are-overrated/
- RT @ericstromberg: This remains my favorite post on the value of a business idea: sive.rs/multiply
- Trying to pursue many different directions at once? Don't be a donkey. sive.rs/donkey
- Kid's got Seoul : youtu.be/BewknNW2b8Y
- Entrepreneurs, need inspiration for what to invent? Try this: search.twitter.com/search?q=%22should+invent%22
- Of all the articles I've read in the past 6 months, this one had the biggest impact on me: lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/
- I moved to Singapore: sive.rs/singapore (It's official now.)
- Any questions? sive.rs/aq
- RT @davidhooper: New Book by @sivers - This is a promo piece I got from BookExpo in NYC twitpic.com/54geoc
- Hey you! What song are you listening to? youtu.be/tvHRUY0tBcs (different soundtracks for same environment)
- Added a few new book notes, for those seeking knowledge or wisdom: sive.rs/book?sort=date
- At Music Matters conference. Email me to meet up. www.musicmatters.asia/2011/home/ (I live 5 minutes walk away. Love it.)
- RT @davidhooper: @sivers At Book Expo and saw your new book being promoted at the Amazon booth. Looking forward to checking it out!
- 5 ways to increase your intelligence : www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07 (facts not opinons). Brilliant article by @AndreaKuszewski
- "I never have to lie to anyone because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid." - John Gotti.
- RT @plamere: How good is Google's Instant Mix? musicmachinery.com/2011/05/14/how-good-is-googles-instant-mix/ - TLDR; not so good
- Some people like to pay. Let them. sive.rs/ppay
- GREAT musicians' guide to Nashville. Anyone new or moving there should get this book: www.survivenashville.com/
- Leaving for Bali in 30 minutes. SO excited. Been wanting to go for 24 years - since I heard this priceless album: www.nonesuch.com/albums/bali-music-from-the-morning-of-the-world
- Great article on how someone created and sold an ebook. Very specific and full of advice. www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/01/startups-open-sourced-1-week-later-10000-in-revenue/
- Fun interview with Jordan from 'Pickup Podcast', here: pickuppodcast.com/2011/04/28/episode-128-derek-sivers/
- In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
- Awesome project. Giant marimbas for a school for the blind: www.kickstarter.com/projects/2087404594/zimbabwean-marimbas-for-the-texas-school-for-the-b
- Feedback on my new video, please? youtu.be/-GCm-u_vlaQ Should I keep animating my essays like this? Suggestions?
- Keep Your Goals to Yourself, in VERY simple English: youtu.be/6X9xOD00NWU
- These BBC nature documentaries so beautifully capture the creatures of our planet: youtu.be/G-wGbCEaCmE
- RT @1_wavex: @sivers -my friend, the great @prestonreed has a new guitar, a groove u could drive a truck thru : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgsRU6MbNE
- Front-row at Imogen Heap in Singapore, yesterday. SO great. Awesome arrangements. Charming performer, too. youtu.be/nONE2Uouv8I
- RT @1_wavex: The surest indication that something is not fully understood .. is the conviction that it is fully understood. @sivers @~
- Signed up to attend tedxubud.com/ and speak at thenewmedia.asia/about - in case you're there, say hello!
- To become too great to ignore, focus on winning one single test: calnewport.com/blog/2009/06/03/the-pyramid-method-a-simple-strategy-for-becoming-exceptionally-good/ Very inspiring.
- I wish this was everywhere: candychang.com/i-wish-this-was/
- How to Get a Real Business Education. Brilliant article by Scott Adams (Dilbert creator). online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704101604576247143383496656.html?mod=WeekendHeader_Right
- (a) Da da da da da! (b) Ba ba ba BA ba? (a) Da DA da da! (b) Hehehehe. (a) Da da DA DA DA? (b) Ba ba! Heheheh. youtu.be/_JmA2ClUvUY
- We're using the same device to do our work as we are to distract ourselves from our work! Great solution: sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/are-you-making-something.html
- When in doubt, remain in doubt.
- Great counter-intuitivie life lessons. Very wise: www.quora.com/What-life-lessons-are-unintuitive-or-go-against-common-sense-or-wisdom
- Contacted about doing charity project to raise money for marionettes. Marionettes! Cool! What? Malaria nets? Oh. That's OK too, I guess.
- Parahawking in Nepal - now on my TO-DO list: parahawking.com/ (thanks @eclectopedic)
- There's no place like home. sive.rs/homeless
- Listening to this while programming: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert Wow.
- Know any great guitar technique books in PDF format? (Got a new acoustic guitar & enjoying re-awakening my chops.)
- Telling the story of how CD Baby took off. @gajoob and @davidhooper get full credit for its momentum by announcing to their readers in 1998.
- Have time to give deep critique/suggestions on rough draft of my new book? Email me something about yourself to [email protected]
- Amazing museum in Sydney: www.whiterabbitcollection.org/ Please go if you can. Best collection I've ever seen.
- My newest TED talk: Why You Need to Fail youtu.be/HhxcFGuKOys Any suggestions on how to improve it?
- My favorite marketing author, Harry Beckwith, is finally blogging! Keep your eye on this: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unthinking
- Hour-long candid interview with me at www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/derek-sivers-the-22-million-dollar-man/ (scroll down to the green [Get Access] button.) MP3: cdn.earn1k.com/audio/DerekSivers_CDBaby100Million.mp3
- What's on Derek Sivers' desk? Nothing but his feet: www.tagbento.com/243/dereks-desk
- Broke my big toe playing in Arabian Sea, Varkala, India. Local hospital: $1 doctor + $2 xray. Experience + bragging rights: priceless. :-)
- Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. sive.rs/delegate
- (Vanity tweet:) iPad ad for TED at bus stop in Los Angeles: sive.rs/file/TED-iPad-ad.mov
- Inspiration never makes the first move. artofminimalism.com/creating-to-be-human-20-rock-star-bloggers-take-the-stage/
- Musicians: anyone tried live internet jamming like ejamming.com/ ? If so, please email me your honest thoughts? [email protected] Thx!
- Restrictions will set you free. andyswan.com/blog/2011/01/05/two-rules/ + sive.rs/restrictions-will-set-you-free
- My video "First Follower" aka "Lessons Learned from Dancing Guy" available for free download: sive.rs/file/DancingGuy-ff.m4v Use, share, etc.
- Spent the whole day typing out my notes for my favorite book ever. Enjoy: sive.rs/book/SeekingWisdom
- Doomsday predictions make headlines, but betting against them usually wins. See www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28tierney.html?_r=1
- Back home in Singapore. So good to be back. Hope to stay in this Asia/Australia time zone for all of 2011.
- Q: Hey Richard Branson, we are 2 broke students, can we join you on your private jet to DC tonight? A: Sure! beanoriginal.net/the-audacity-of-shamelessly-asking/
- Strategic advantage for a business to be both tech and non-tech: techcrunch.com/2010/12/24/hybrid-startup/
- RT @cyberpr: Watch Team @CyberPR in tacky red sweaters singing! Our HOLIDAY VIDEO CARD! for you www.youtube.com/arielpublicity#p/u/0/zq8_HrEx93w
- Congrats @thinksimplenow thinksimplenow.com for winning coolest job: 'good mood blogger'. Glad I was no help. :-)
- Read The 4-Hour Body in one 12-hour sitting. fourhourbody.com/ Amazing book. Congrats @tferriss
- What's the most 'unrealistic' thing you've accomplished and what did you learn from the process? See www.sensophy.com/48-online-authorities-reveal-unrealistic-accomplishments/
- Flying to India to speak at theinkconference.com/
- RT @arsenehodali: @sivers dinners are for talking about that which we lack and desire it seems.
- "When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money." — Oscar Wilde
- Process innovation. The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery. LOVE this. online.wsj.com/article/SB125875892887958111.html
- Musicians, great examples of purple cow + chutzpah: www.sonicscoop.com/2010/11/21/smarter-in-60-ii-how-music-can-milk-seth-godins-purple-cow/
- Gorgeous haunting merge of old Amsterdam photos into today: www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/03/the-ghosts-of-amsterdam/
- Obvious to you. Amazing to others. sive.rs/obvious
- Why wreck a blank canvas? sive.rs/blank
- RT @TechCrunch: CD Baby Founder Recounts A Tale Of Steve Jobs, iTunes, And Broken Promises tcrn.ch/aKFVbX by @jasonkincaid
- The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard: sive.rs/itunes
- When someone complains, it means one of two things.... sive.rs/complainers
- "Safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want." - Charlie Munger - www.deeshaa.org/2010/02/13/notes-from-charlie-mungers-2007-commencement-speech-at-usc-law/
- If you are both a guitarist and a Linux fan, check this out: gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/ (Maybe should be called Hendrix?)
- Jon Stewart's serious comment at the end of the rally: www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dysci/jon_stewart_thank_you_for_your_serious_comments/c13xzpy Brilliant.
- Great tidbits of wisdom from traveling the world for 3 years: www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/10/30/20-things-ive-learned-from-traveling-around-the-world-for-three-years/ (Warning: makes you want to get up and go!)
- RT @pwiger: Announcing your goals is bad for completion — sive.rs/zipit — so I zipped it AND DID IT! I'm sooo proud now! :) dailymile.com/e/E6F2
- Signed up for a Hotdesk for 6 months at hackerspace.sg/ @hackerspacesg
- Listening to Lyle Lovett's album 'Joshua Judges Ruth' for the 100th time. So so so good. All of it.
- New York Times / Freakonomics disagrees with my TED Talk: freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/are-public-commitments-counterproductive/ Your thoughts?
- Spent afternoon in Singapore Japanese internet cafe. Calm and classy. Highly recommended if in Raffles Place: cafeo-rid.com/
- Test says I'm INTJ: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ#Characteristics Funny how accurate that description is. You? www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
- Notes from a Guide to the Good Life: www.leader-values.com/wordpress/?p=3075
- Characteristics of successful musicians, too: paulgraham.com/founders.html (emphasize 2 & 3. add practice/improvement.)
- Boarding plane to Guilin, China, to study Mandarin full-time for 2 months. A dream/goal of mine since 2006. Very excited.
- Shower in the Hong Kong airport lounge, after a 14-hour flight. 5 hour layover, then Singapore.
- The best part of blogging is the people you will meet: onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/14208/Why-Every-Entrepreneur-Should-Write-and-9-Tips-To-Get-Started.aspx (I agree)
- Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Speaking at Berklee College of Music in Boston tonight (Oct 4th) at 7pm: 921 Boylston, 3rd floor, The Loft. Everyone invited.
- Speaking at TEDx in Singapore on October 16th: tedxnus.com/ It's free, so register while you can.
- For home-recording artists: free ebook: "How we made a studio-grade album for $190" www.drugstorefanatics.com/page.php?id=3
- Donated $500 to author of Anki, because it's that amazing. Using it to learn Mandarin. ichi2.net/anki/
- Some great new books posted: sive.rs/book?sort=date
- L3C: interesting structure for running a business where profit is only a secondary goal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3C
- Tweeting on the command-line again thanks to jmillerinc.com/2010/05/31/twitter-from-the-command-line-in-python-using-oauth/
- Spoke in Rotterdam today: "Art of Profitability" - www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20100916_emerce_eday_keynote_derek_sivers_profitability_art/ - based on this book: sive.rs/book/ArtOfProfitability
- LOVE this: "winning" is just comparing hours spent practicing. What if practice=winning were taught more directly? dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_illusion_of_winning/
- in Singapore for the week. Anyone here want to meet? I'd love to get to know it more. Email me at [email protected]
- Studying Mandarin 3-6 hours a day, lately. So into it. Using wenlin.com + amzn.to/avHOJc + amzn.to/ajnKXn
- Biked 100km (62 miles) from Stockholm to Baltic Sea: maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&num=200&start=42&msa=0&msid=107061946988576143189.00048bd76b1f825e46887&ll=59.307263,18.37944&spn=0.234475,0.725784&z=11
- Attention companies: Major Rails programmer/author/speaker told me he's ready to commit to a great company as tech lead. Email me for info.
- Karmalist wishlist? sive.rs/kl
- Listening to www.nothingbuttheblues.co.uk/radio.html
- I always wanted a pet fox. Thank you, science! www.sibfox.com/foxes/
- The best "ABOUT ME" page I've ever seen: www.leland1234.com/About%20Me.html
- If people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. We're defined by what we say no to. paulgraham.com/addiction.html
- When you retire, what happens to all the knowledge and experience you acquired? steveblank.com/2010/07/26/you-cant-take-it-with-you/
- Choosing safety over your long-time dream? Read blog.rootein.com/2010/04/for-gods-sake-follow-your-dreams.html
- Valuable to others, or only you? sive.rs/starving-artist
- In Stockholm (Sweden) for two months. Anyone I should meet? Contact me here: sive.rs/contact
- Wow. Fell in love with my wife all over again (actually: more than ever) this weekend.
- “I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” - John Cage
- Quit quirks when working with others: sive.rs/quirks
- Went on a nice 1-hour run through the streets of London, barefoot.
- (for those of you considering a massive change) My loss: sive.rs/loss
- Compass in your gut. (The most important lesson I ever learned.) sive.rs/compass
- Do you know an anorexic hermit crab? www.sridharsmusic.com/blog/crab/
- I assume I'm below average. sive.rs/below-average
- iPhone or millionaire? Love this comic: www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1125.gif
- Comedian mayor and married lesbian prime minister. Iceland is my favorite country. nyti.ms/9IxjkR & www.examiner.com/x-50081-NY-Romance-Examiner~y2010m6d29-Icelands-Prime-Minister-First-World-Leader-with-SameSex-Spouse
- Hi! I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such films as... worldwide-web.com/JeffreyBabad/Simpsons/Troy/index.html
- For musicians: widget for giving away an MP3 in return for their email address, a Facebook "like", or tweet: www.pledgemusic.com/#new_widget
- How to get hired: sive.rs/gethired
- If you have a problem in your life, it's rooted in a habit: tynan.net/habits
- Many things taught as fact are proven wrong here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions
- "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci
- Wow. I knew it felt like nobody was using MySpace anymore, but look at that graph! helloform.com/blog/2010/06/its-too-late-for-myspace/
- We store our knowledge & memories in the things we create: dilbert.com/blog/entry/exobrain/
- RT @ciazma: about @sivers in Turkish sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?id=19497184
- Do I have to be a teenager to think this is an AWESOME trailer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_RrNCqCIPE
- Geek talk: thegeektalk.com/interviews/derek-sivers/
- Ruby metaprogramming. Just finished www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-model-and-metaprogramming now starting www.pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby thanks to @chadfowler
- Saw Theo Jansen & his walking beasts on the beach in Den Haag, Holland today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY
- How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen: sive.rs/how2hire
- Where I've been in Amsterdam: maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107061946988576143189.00048910e322ffd89de12&ll=52.373084,4.873981&spn=0.070427,0.181446&z=13 (Nexus One phone GPS tracks bike-rides and walks, then one-click to upload.)
- We cannot expect to touch excellence if "going through the motions" is the norm of our lives. sive.rs/book/ArtOfLearning
- GREAT story about not waiting for permission to get what you really want: www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/06/15/its-better-to-beg-for-forgiveness-than-to-ask-for-permission/
- Former Prime Minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, just tweeted my First Follower talk! twitter.com/hatoyamayukio/status/16265390887
- After 15 years of practice... sive.rs/15-years
- My 45-min RailsConf talk about accents, quirks, outcomes, confabulation, instinct, delegating, and incest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-phU9m9kg
- Reading all about cycling in Holland. So excited for longer exploratory trips: www.cycletourer.co.uk/cycletouring/holland.shtml
- Moving to Amsterdam today. Two suitcases + two bikes. Cancelled cellphone contract. Heading to airport. Ah, the laptop life.
- #railsconf All the music from my keynote speech last night, since many have asked: gist.github.com/433638
- Minimalism is simply eliminating the unnecessary: mnmlist.com/not-affluent/
- Spent the last 3 days nonstop doing railstutorial.org/ start-to-finish. Awesome book, @railstutorial - Thanks!
- RT @alaindebotton: Modern romanticism: we go in search of one person who will spare us any need for other people.
- One of my favorite posts of all time: "I Have No Talent": railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/01/12/i-have-no-talent/
- I love learning about our common thinking mistakes: lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist: sive.rs/sakamoto
- Naïve Quitting: sive.rs/nq
- This is the CLI-geek finance tool I'd always been looking for: bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html
- RT @HarryBeckwith: Interesting: Just learned that the word enthusiasm comes from the Greek, and means "filled with God."
- Riveting animation of brilliant talks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc + www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
- You mean I can be nomadic AND bring a kitten? cuteoverload.com/2010/05/11/lets-go-for-a-catwalk/
- Clear thinking is inspiring. One of my favorite thinker's posts on fear: www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/worst-case_thin.html
- RT @TheSeantourage: Schedule 1 night a week to disappear from the world & connect to your own divinity. Take a walk, journal, or create art.
- I use Linux & BSD (not Mac or Windows) so my backups are rsync + tar cf with bcrypt encryption. (Yeah. Geeky.) @JDelage @thacomputa @mkoidin
- Hard drive died. New drive in, OS installed and all software and all work/docs/configs restored from backup & working in 4 hours. Good boy.
- Doesn't take much motivation. Just enough to get started: blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/05/how-and-when-to-motivate-yours.html
- I love this! 24 hours from idea to rough launch. I preach this but should practice it: thintz.com/essays/lean-startup-extreme
- Interesting thoughts on sive.rs/thor at news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328452
- Thursday = Thor's day. Or "going one further": sive.rs/thor
- Glad Henry Tate is still teaching Art History at Berklee. Amazing teacher: www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/henry-augustine-tate + www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=104492
- Favorite pizza in NYC: palapizza.com at 198 Allen St (below Houston) - the "Bufala Cruda" pizza. So fresh!
- Experiment without hot water. Why? Autonomy, ingenuity, and will power. Read to end. Sounds like me: joshwhiton.com/?p=181
- Great music biz articles at madepublishing.com
- New book notes: sive.rs/book?sort=date (Click "my notes" for any.)
- "Work is love made visible." - Khalil Gibran
- 25 tips to overcome creative block: blog.iso50.com/2010/02/10/overcoming-creative-block/
- For every complicated problem, there's a simple solution. But it's wrong.
- Oregon coast all week. Outside of cellphone range. Bad internet, so only on an hour a day. Re-learning Ruby, programming, and reading a lot.
- It works! Giving away an idea to make it happen: techdirt.com/blog/entrepreneurs/articles/20100407/0229408906.shtml
- (Whoa.) Remember who you are: gapingvoid.com/2010/04/15/you-less-than/
- Last chance for a free book: bookmooch.com/inventory/sivers/ Just sign up & email me your username so I can gift you points to use.
- I'm giving away ALL my books, 175 of them, here: bookmooch.com/inventory/sivers/ Get one ASAP!
- Great idea: a summary of last week's news that is still important. Read only that, not daily noise. marco.org/502016907
- Great entrepreneur article. “It's not the job of the customers to know what they don’t know” blogmaverick.com/2010/04/06/why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers/
- RT @tedtalks: How to start a movement -- in 3 minutes: Derek Sivers on #TED on.ted.com/8EPn
- My TED talk: "How to Start a Movement" is live: www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html
- At the end of every computer is a real person, a lot like you: sive.rs/real
- Friends don't let friends buy Monster cable! Bad Monster, bad! www.mint.com/blog/trends/the-rip1/
- Why many smart people are not successful: www.lifebeyondcode.com/2010/03/29/9-reasons-why-many-smart-people-go-nowhere/
- "The only people who should plan on making money from writing a book are people who made money on their last book." sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/03/publishing-books-to-make-money.html
- Offered the shit end of the stick? Never forget you can flip the stick & take the good end: sive.rs/flipstick
- I LOVE Arch Linux: archlinux.org/ Using it exclusively now & thrilled. Minimalist DIY. Try if Ubuntu is too Mac-like for you. :-)
- Wow. Amazing wisdom about writing: bighow.com/news/the-art-of-great-writing-60-writing-tips-from-6-alltime-great-writers
- "How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will." - Albert Einstein
- Just booked a round-trip flight to Amsterdam: June 12 to September 24, so I guess we'll be in Europe all summer.
- Using Rich Media To Drive Home A Point: www.myrender.com/blog/2010/3/23/using-rich-media-to-drive-home-a-point.html
- Musicians have a "Hall of Elders" where they can seek inspiration: indieconnect.ning.com/profiles/blogs/advice-from-the-hall-of-elders - about musicthoughts.com
- All videos from "Successful SxSW: the Tao of the Conference": sive.rs/sxsw
- While fiancee was at her bridal shower, I switched my laptop to minimalist archlinux.org/ + www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
- Oh I definitely stumbled and fell bad. I was a horrible manager. That's why I sold the company: personal failure, not success.(to @alexpham)
- Definitions of "founder": (1) a person who founds or establishes some institution, (2) stumble and nearly fall: "the horses foundered"
- RT @cyberpr: Today Ariel Publicity turns 15 years old thanks to every single artist who I have ever worked with
- Magnatune is doing better than ever: blogs.magnatune.com/buckman/2010/03/new-business-model-for-magnatune.html
- SxSW talk went well. Took ~60 hours of prep to edit it all! Only had time to use 22 of the 64 submitted videos. I'll post all online ASAP.
- About to do my talk at SxSW convention center 4th floor room 12AB.
- Nice Apple rant! "iPhone: Sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers." Freedom not optional. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google#p-5
- My SxSW talk, Wednesday at 11am: "Successful SXSW: The Tao of the Conference" Add to your schedule? my.sxsw.com/events/event/7561
- RT @Mhochberg: @sivers Sentences, like punctuation, are the "body language" of a written language.
- RT: @KwaiYu: Chinese: One of oldest languages but has no plurals nor tenses. Reason why Chinese people struggle with English.
- Does every language have sentences?
- I'm on NPR Morning Edition this morning, commenting on this: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124126711
- At SxSW. If you see me, say hi.
- To be clear:I don't recommend being like the guy in the "ruthless" article. Just thought it was a fascinating objective analysis. Good read.
- Are you capable of being ruthless to get ahead? blog.cubeofm.com/are-you-capable-of-being-ruthless-to-get-ahea
- CD release tips: independentrockstar.com/679/cd-release-tips-derek-sivers/
- 10,000 free musical instruments to 10,000 underprivileged kids? Consider voting: refresheverything.com/getinstrumental
- Smart people don't think others are stupid.
- Listening to Debussy's “Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp” for the 100th time. Stunning recording: amazon.com/dp/B000001SEN
- RT @cyberpr: Want to see an amazing video that cost $24.95 to create? www.youtube.com/watch?v=83oWsG0cJcc from @DLchorus
- Great metaphor of relying on inherent talent vs hard work: blog.cubeofm.com/your-high-iq-will-kill-your-startup
- MUST-SEE: OK Go "This Too Shall Pass" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
- My favorite recent TED talk: your experiencing self vs remembering self. Deep. on.ted.com/8Ads
- Giving away some books: bookmooch.com/inventory/sivers
- Just FYI for those who asked: My talk at SxSW: my.sxsw.com/events/event/7561
- Do something small weekly, something big monthly. Wise marketing advice: www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=657
- USPTO hiring patent examiners. Same job Einstein had. :-) jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=85627686&JobTitle=Patent+Examiner+%28*General%29&sort=rv%2c-dtex&cn=&rad_units=miles&brd=3876&pp=50&fn=4537&jbf574=CM56&vw=b&re=134&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&caller=basic.aspx&ss=0&AVSDM=2010-01-29+03%3a23%3a00
- Love her projects: www.babelgum.com/3020170/radar-eleven-color-katie.html + colormekatie.blogspot.com/2010/01/chalk-walk.html
- RT @andrewatideal: Join what was started by @sivers, continued by @dubber, and spread the word on something made real by me. Here's how: www.projectidealism.com/2010/02/dancers-need-music.html
- Powerful highlight of last week's TED Conference: ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html "4 ways to fix a broken legal system"
- AWESOME! See www.projectidealism.com/2010/02/dance-party.html - Now THAT's a challenge! Anyone else? Jump in now.
- My notes for the 7 newest books I've read: sive.rs/book?sort=date Travellers, read "Geography of Bliss" ASAP!
- Brilliant! "Following" by using theme, not example: andrewdubber.com/2010/02/the-other-way-of-following-first/
- Music appreciation lesson from Einstein himself: sive.rs/weidman
- Great post on sunk costs. Applies to so many things in life: blog.asmartbear.com/sunk-costs.html
- First Follower idea is all yours: sive.rs/ff2
- RT @tonyrobbins: 3 min video: Interesting,weird but true insights into leadership & what makes a behavior become cool sive.rs/ff
- Girl at TED asks me where Google booth is. I see Larry Page so I shout, "Hey Larry! Where's your booth?" Very annoyed, he scowls and points.
- Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy: sive.rs/ff (This is my TED Talk from yesterday.)
- Just did my TED talk. Nerve-wracking, got stuck at one point, but got a standing ovation at the end. :-) Phew!
- Practicing my TED Talk for Wednesday. Preview: sive.rs/dance-lessons
- Oops. Correct phone#: 712-432-8730. Conf code: 10318#
- Listen in on a conference call interview I'm doing in 3 minutes, for the next hour: call 1-732-432-8730 (10318#)
- Mini dream-come-true: I'm on the front page of TED.com: ted.com
- RT @MichelleStewart: "If you can learn music, you can learn anything" via Derek Sivers (who heard it from an old Jazz musician) #millionaireaffair
- RT @AlexPham: Musicians, this one's for you: Five (non-obvious) ways to get new fans. latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/02/five-nonobvious-ways-to-get-new-fans.html #nms
- RT @AlexPham: Where to get fans. Advice from @iancr @coreythrace @ReverbNation @TopSpinMedia and other pros. latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/02/five-nonobvious-ways-to-get-new-fans.html
- 40-minute talk about profitability, for entrepreneurs: b.lesseverything.com/2010/2/3/derek-sivers-speaks-at-lessconf2009
- "If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." - Mother Theresa
- Business owners, resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake: sive.rs/punish
- Very helpful and thorough U.S. Copyright FAQ page: www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
- My TED talk on Japanese addresses & other opposites: www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different.html
- It's bad luck to believe in bad luck.
- There are always more than two options: sive.rs/options
- Rush Limbaugh major confession: www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_dont_even_want_to_be_alive
- Big catalog = infinite specialty shops : sive.rs/prism
- Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy: sive.rs/seth-godin
- Eno is my hero. Great article & quotes: www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/17/brian-eno-interview-paul-morley
- On the Oregon coast. Girlfriend has bad cold, so extending stay 4 days. I'm finally documenting and publicly publishing my PHP framework.
- MeetInnovators interview: meetinnovators.com/2010/01/14/derek-sivers-from-cd-baby/
- Tofugu elaborates on my explanation of Japanese addresses: www.tofugu.com/2010/01/06/how-the-japanese-address-system-works/ (Mine: sive.rs/jaddr)
- Musicians can report live CD-sales to Soundscan: indiehitmaker.com
- Anyone know a Carnatic vocalist that sings in Tamil in the New York City area? Please contact me. (Paying gig.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_music
- LOVE this mindset: "not talent, just hard work": railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/01/12/i-have-no-talent/
- "It's definitely time to get up. Yes. My dog needs a new tutu." sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
- "This fish has got big floppy lips. Floppy lips. Fishy kissy fishy kissy. Oop, took one on the mouth! Not nice." sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
- "Don't leave the duck there. It's totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it'll have much more fun." sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
- AWESOME: sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
- Excited for this next weekend: stevepavlina.com/conscious-growth-workshop/ Love his anti-hype description.
- Long dinner with Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra, who discovered the Doors, Queen, etc. recordsbymail.com/elektra.php
- 10 Rules for Web Startups (from Twitter founder). GREAT: evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
- Great Calvin imitation: i.imgur.com/nXWqL.jpg
- RT: @fogus: the best blog post of 2009 was "No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no." sive.rs/hellyeah (Thanks!)
- In Rio de Janeiro, Copacobana beach, with 2 million people all wearing white, fireworks, with 4 good friends & fiancée. :-)
- Changed our plans to fly to Rio tomorrow through January 2nd. Anyone in Rio want to meet? Email me: sive.rs/contact
- In Florianópolis, Brazil. Here: pontadosganchos.com.br/web/eng/bangalos_especialdavila.php
- So SO proud of the UK's #1 Christmas hit: www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/12/21/rage-against-the-machine-win-u-k-christmas-single-battle/
- In line at the post office, sending 15 copies of sive.rs/book/IgnoreEverybody to 15 musicians for their thoughts.
- Supposed to be on a plane to Brazil, but coming snowstorm cancelled all flights for 3 days. Instead, bracing for blizzard.
- Papa Bill: I don't need to worry about you. sive.rs/papabill
- 7 Critical Marketing Basics Every Musicians Should Know: cyberprurban.com/blog/?p=275
- Funny comments on my YouTube "Japanese Addresses & Other Opposites": www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1zh49J5rsg
- Just saw Avatar. Absolutely amazing. One of the most creative movies I've ever seen. See it 3D. So good we're going again.
- Met with my girlfriend's (Muslim Indian) family to ask for her hand in marriage. Got a big "welcome to the family" at the end.
- stevepavlina.com really resonates with me. Love his book too: sive.rs/book/PersonalDevelopmentForSmartPeople
- "Nobody told me it's impossible, so I did it"
- Ariel Publicity kicks ass: views.washingtonpost.com/on-success/woman-warrior/2009/12/while_in_business_school_i.html ("empower independent artists to optimize their own PR") arielpublicity.com
- Helping get a busker online: www.changeyourreality.com/blog/2007/04/22/techies-unite-give-bucketman-a-site/ (thanks @richcollins)
- Business idea: Put buskers online: sive.rs/busk
- RT @annielin: why he gave away his company to charity: thoughts on cd baby's derek @sivers & the night i crashed on his couch on tour: is.gd/5gd0W
- "Online" marketing = "Color" TV : sive.rs/tv
- Entrepreneurs, take note. Build a system not a product: blog.opportunitycloud.com/2009/12/05/build-a-system-not-a-product/
- Why I gave away my company to charity: sive.rs/trust
- Best web-design advice I've seen in a long time. Bookmark it: boagworld.com/design/8-ecommerce-improvements
- There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) sive.rs/kimo
- Cutest kitten video ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8 This is why the internet was invented.
- Yawn: www.upenn.edu/gazette/1109/expert.html
- Present one idea at a time and let others build upon it: sive.rs/1idea
- The challenge: Don't speak in future tense. sive.rs/futuretense
- "Each of my lectures contains one lie. Your job, as students, is to find the lie." Read to end: www.zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/
- Hardest delegating lesson to learn: Trust but verify. sive.rs/trust-but-verify
- Let pedestrians define the walkways: sive.rs/walkways
- All this learning means nothing until you make something happen: sive.rs/confidence
- I'm at boston.musichackday.org/ all weekend. Any #musichackday people come say hello. Gray shirt. Shiny head.
- Did something I've wanted to for years: Signed up to Netflix and added ALL of Ebert's "Great Movies" to queue.
- Since I used to play Santa at a mall, I can really appreciate this: twitter.com/loadedsanta
- "Only dead fish go with the flow." - sive.rs/book/PragmaticThinking
- Read 10 new books in last 6 weeks, mostly about learning and investing. Notes posted here: sive.rs/book?sort=date
- Past 40 hours went from coffee plantation in rural India, to dinner with 30 musicians in Singapore, to Tokyo-LAX-NYC. Almost home....
- Off to rural Coorg India for 3 days here: www.swarga.in/ (read the description!) Totally offline. Writing, reading, programming.
- Check one thing off my to-do list for life: I'm now a TED speaker. It went well. :-)
- Anyone wondering how TED India is going, my buddy Ani is blogging it well: annekejong.blogspot.com/
- Staying in dorm room at Infosys Campus, Mysore India, all week. Amazing: www.flickr.com/search/?q=infosys+campus+mysore
- 3hr layover @ LAX = 2 hr intense bikeride on the beach, 15 min swim, back at gate early. HELL YEAH!
- Now flying NYC - LA - Tokyo - Singapore - Bangalore, then a bus to Mysore India. 23 hours of wonderful offline programming and reading time.
- Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable: sive.rs/contrarian
- You are all at least my 11th cousin. Including Obama: www.ksbw.com/news/21404492/detail.html
- Deep article with clear thinking about a universal language www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2009%20-%20Fall/full-McWhorter-Fall-2009.html
- 5 Music Industry Leaders You Should Follow: audiolife.com/blog/index.php/5-music-industry-leaders-you-should-follow/ (thanks Lior!)
- Tweaking my TED Talk slides for next week's @tedindia #tedindia
- Reading “The Productive Programmer” oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519544
- 4 hands. 1 guitar. Watch carefully. Her right, his left. Vice-versa. Amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcsSPzr7ays
- GREAT 5-minute talk about how sound affects us. Please watch: www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_the_4_ways_sound_affects_us.html
- Been working in 25-minute uninterrupted bursts with a 5-minute break, as suggested in #1-5 here: www.pomodorotechnique.com/
- Up at 5am working, watching Manhattan skyline. Dark blue sky. Office building lights turning on like microwave popcorn.
- Interview with the great Rick Goetz from musiciancoaching.com about music, business, and focus.
- Speaking on a panel at CMJ: "Specific Business Concepts for the Modern Day Music Artist" - using hashtag #cmjbiz if you want to follow.
- Spent the day switching to Linux (Ubuntu 9.10). Very impressed. Now back to programming Muckwork (finally).
- Best laugh of the morning over breakfast: Drunkest Guy Goes Back for More Beer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZQsA7G0hvQ
- Installing FreeBSD on a Lenovo T400s. Years-old dream to have a minimalist FreeBSD laptop. Glad PHK has same one.
- Arrived in Jacksonville. Speaking at @lessconf tomorrow. Constantly editing my 45-minute talk on profitability.
- If you think you haven't found your passion... sive.rs/passion
- Doesn't feel like work (or I've forgotten) : sive.rs/notwork
- Weird businesses. The ultimate inspiration: www.inc.com/ss/america039s-weirdest-businesses
- Learning the theme, not the example: sive.rs/metaphor
- Podcast interview with me, talking about.... www.tripplanier.com/blog_files/derek-sivers.html
- How I knew I was done with my company: sive.rs/done
- Now that's one way to dance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcgg6YLVj28
- Interview with "Allentrepreneur. Startup Founders At The Forefront" about passion, fearlessness, integrity.
- Just signed up for Seth Godin's November 19 NYC event: www.squidoo.com/The-November-Sessions
- You should feel pain when unclear: sive.rs/unclear
- Why did I get 20,000 new Twitter followers in the last 9 days? I'm assuming they're spambots unless I hear otherwise from new followers.
- Watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhqZ0RU95d4 = hell yeah!
- Listening to Madhouse 8 while programming Muckwork. Never realized ALL instruments except sax are Prince. Amazing.
- Very worth following @kurt_vonnegut = daily Kurt Vonnegut quotes: twitter.com/kurt_vonnegut
- Turn stairs into a piano, and people skip the escalator to use them: technology.todaysbigthing.com/2009/10/09 Awesome.
- Oooh. Musicians: get in on this ASAP. Watch the demo video then enter your email address: creators.rockband.com/
- YES!! I'm speaking at TED India! Just a 2 minute talk explaining this: sive.rs/jadr but I'm psyched!
- How do you grade yourself? sive.rs/grade
- Whistle-blowers are an important part of society, but I wish that person outside my window would lay off the whistle for a day.
- Seeing Sugarland and Keith Urban at Madison Square Garden as a guest Sugarland & @cyberpr
- If you haven't seen Stop Making Sense concert video by Talking Heads, you should. It's genius and inspiring.:w
- Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one. sive.rs/makenew
- RT @jerrethammons "Aren't those sizes from Coldstone?" = thanks for the best laugh of the morning. :-)
- What's the difference between like, love, and in-love? sive.rs/inlove (curious to hear different answers)
- Imagine if Einstein tried to maintain a blog, book and hobbies while solving Relativity: www.calnewport.com/blog/?p=115
- Before mailing to a U.S. address: zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp Use their "standard format" for more reliable delivery.
- You Can't Do What You Want By Doing Something Else: www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=269972
- went to SNL dress rehearsal. Madonna gets in skit with Lady Gaga. Worth watching. :-)
- Spending the next 2 days over my head at www.singularitysummit.com/program
- Best laugh of the day: Streaker scores! www.metacafe.com/watch/3084/amazing_streaker_scores/
- Entrepreneurs: "Let your users tell you what they need instead of deciding for them" : drstarcat.com/archives/163
- And if only 1% of those people... sive.rs/1pct (Just a tiny story with a good reminder.)
- Does your company really want to hang out with me? sive.rs/sms
- RT @carlalynnehall: Last night I tested @sivers "pay what you want" experiment from sive.rs/livecd and I SOLD OUT OF ALL THE CDs!!
- The first rule of communication: Communicate so that you cannot be misunderstood. sive.rs/book/YouInc
- Biking : sive.rs/biking
- My 40th birthday today, so I just biked 100 hilly miles in 7 hours. Now having pizza and tea, and programming. Perfect day.
- Idea for a venue where the audience can mix their own audio: sive.rs/venuemix
- Musicians, try this experiment? Everyone must have a CD, even if free: sive.rs/livecd
- "If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse." - Henry Ford
- Weird! archive.org/details/DerekSivers_312 is a reading of sive.rs/freedom created by @audiorarities (Thanks!)
- Is there such a thing as too much freedom? sive.rs/freedom
- Wow. Comedian Eddie Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days, for real: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8256589.stm
- Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don't fight it. sive.rs/dont-fight-it (advice to myself)
- Interview: musformation.com/an_interview_with_derek_sivers_-_founder_of_cd_babycom/
- Safety: sive.rs/safety
- Seeing closing performance of Avenue Q on Broadway, as guest of Jeff Marx who co-wrote it. Now that's stylin. :-)
- Verbose article about succinctly saying "no": www.esquire.com/features/influence/say-no-0508
- Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step? sive.rs/steps
- Does it help to be desperate? - PART 2: sive.rs/desperate2
- Reading Tina's report on her 3 months in India. Wow: thinksimplenow.com/clarity/living-enlightenment-report/
- Does it help to be desperate? sive.rs/desperate
- Next Tarantino Movie an Homage to Beloved Tarantino Movies: www.theonion.com/content/news/next_tarantino_movie_an_homage_to
- I keep hearing good things about bandcamp.com - Reply if you have any experience with them?
- "I don’t come to bow, I come to conquer." - Bob Marley
- "Just keep climbing ladders.": sive.rs/ladders
- Unlearning : sive.rs/unlearning
- My heroes: sive.rs/heroes
- James Brown gives you dancing lessons: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo
- Kurt Vonnegut explains drama : sive.rs/drama
- How to send personalized emails: sive.rs/emailer
- "Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable." - (via @tferriss)
- Sprezzatura: sive.rs/sprezzatura
- What do you hate NOT doing? sive.rs/hatenot
- Idea: Musician's own website as definitive source of all info: sive.rs/mhost
- No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no. sive.rs/hellyeah
- I love a clear mind. ("I suspect I agree with some of the points the boycotters could make, but they haven’t made them.")
- Pink Floyd, making "Dark Side of the Moon". www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKDSDbipGU Cool to hear isolated tracks.
- Synchronized disrobing in Union Square out my window this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DEToul8LLk
- New York City with no people or cars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTUr8Smwpo A 7am bike ride up Park Ave, through Grand Central.
- Anyone in NYC with a bicycle: Get up by 7am tomorrow and get to Park Ave. Streets closed. Only bikes & peds. Amazing! www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/about/about.shtml
- Talking to random strangers in Union Square. :-)
- Learning Git : www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/
- Rented a car at the airport. Accidentally drove it off a bridge into a creek. Car totaled. I'm fine. Shoulda paid the $8/day insurance. Damn.
- 6am bike ride in the rain: 52 miles in 3.5 hours. (NYC Union Square to Piermont & back.) Yeah!
- "Networking is important when it's real, and a useless distraction when it's fake." - Seth Godin. Watch: www.brandinfection.com/2009/08/01/seth-godin-on-social-networking/
- "Please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" - Kurt Vonnegut
- White wine that my dinner guests always love: Kim Crawford 2008 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. From New Zealand. In US at Trader Joe's.
- Ideas are just a multiplier of execution : sive.rs/multiply
- Travel gloat: Walking in NYC. Feet, sandals, and jeans covered in mud from a festival in central England where I was this morning. :-)
- A computer that would require kids to be creative to use it: sive.rs/kidspc
- At WOMAD festival, Peter Gabriel playing his only 2009 concert in background. I'm on laptop in TED tent, programming muckwork.com :-)
- At #TED in Oxford hanging with the clever @brainpicker - quizzing strangers about how many oceans there are, including names. (A P I A S)
- Try to get more rejections: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_Therapy
- "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer than exposure." - Helen Keller
- "I miss the mob" : sive.rs/the-mob
- "Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do": sive.rs/letmeknow2
- Answered 795 emails today. (Gimme a Ringo Helter Skelter shout: "I've got blisters on my fingers!")
- Barking (When things aren’t working, think "smarter" not "louder") - sive.rs/barking
- The power of no reward: sive.rs/no-reward
- Listening to www.brunomerz.com/music/ while answering a million emails. :-)
- The mirror: It's about you, not them: sive.rs/you-not-them
- Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story. sive.rs/tom-williams
- One ex slept over for a few days & left this morning. Next ex arriving (with her son) in a few hours. Ex's are good for total honesty.
- Had good dinner with @dcurtis talking about surprising similarities, on his last day in NYC. :-)
- Semi-experts: profit by saving us time sive.rs/semi-expert
- Complete: I need more ___________ and less ____________.
- Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded : sive.rs/novc
- Just biked 52 miles in from NYC (Union Square), over GW Bridge, through NJ, to Piermont NY and back. 6am-10:30am. Wooo!
- Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi sive.rs/lofi
- 3rd night in a row of hours-long MJ party outside my window. Oof. www.snapmylife.com/pictures/show/7483291
- Early drafts of great work are encouraging: sive.rs/early
- "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - Tara Ploughman (@TaraPloughman)
- Great short illustrated look at Thomas Jefferson: kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/
- Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable. sive.rs/contrarian
- What comes first: thoughts or feelings?
- Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. Cool, huh? sive.rs/jadr
- Read "Born to Run" in one sitting. Riveting, interesting & inspiring. Must-read for all runners: amazon.com/dp/0307266303
- Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy: sive.rs/jam
- It's rained for 16 of the last 20 days here in NYC. Report says 10 more rain days coming. My Pacific Northwest blood likes it! :-)
- Quiet Bach piano music, lightly in the background, is a great backdrop for the sounds of NYC.
- Another great reading list: www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
- Highly recommended reading list for those who love to learn: sive.rs/book (each with detailed notes)
- (Learned today:) A jolly nonstop bagpiper outside your window is only fun for the first two hours.
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them: sive.rs/zipit
- Brunch with @Willbassboy and Sandrine, talking Canon cameras, audience interaction, and Fab Faux : www.thefabfaux.com/fauxstory.php
- "Illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who can't read and write, but those who can't learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Toffler
- That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1. sive.rs/infinity
- About to hit Facebook's 5000 friend-limit. Last chance to link up there, if you want: www.facebook.com/people/Derek_Sivers/609761260
- Woke to this great text from a friend: "I totally forgot what of was like to be drunk and single" :-)
- Show success before asking for help : sive.rs/success-first
- I'd talk about hanging with @zedshaw last night, but you'd think I was just showing off. :-)
- Why you need your own company sive.rs/laboratory
- Signed up for Improv Everywhere : improveverywhere.com/faq/ + improveverywhere.com/missions/
- Great music video all shot in one take, with audio at same time as video (not sync'd) nyellee.com/wordpress/?p=190
- MusicThoughts update : inspiring quotes for music-makers - sive.rs/musicthoughts2
- One of my favorite mags runs final issue: www.performingsongwriter.com Where else do you read in-depth interviews with songwriters?
- Musicians, this is one of the most useful Twitter feeds for you: twitter.com/artistshouse (@artistshouse)
- How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy: sive.rs/dance-lessons
- How to start a movement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk
- "... I have something he will never have: Enough." - sive.rs/enough
- Are you future-focused or present-focused? The marshmallow experiment. sive.rs/time
- Café in Brooklyn. Ask a stranger if she knows the song on the radio. She says, "Hi Derek!" It's Cady from www.cadyfinlaysonfiddle.com
- Hey! Someone updated my Wikipedia page. Thanks (whoever you are). Not allowed to do it myself. :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Sivers
- Some people like to pay. Let them. sive.rs/ppay
- Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote: sive.rs/purplecow
- What do musicians and entrepreneurs have in common? sive.rs/no9to5
- Surreal moment: sitting in Times Square at midnight, roped off pedestrian area, lawn chairs, teaching @tferriss SQL in moleskin notebook.
- Interviewed by CIRAA : sive.rs/ciraa
- What super-power do you want? sive.rs/super-power
- Talent increases. Resourcefulness decreases. Are you sustainable? sive.rs/sustainable
- "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." - Confucius
- Came to NYC for a wedding. Decided to stay. Cancelled return flight. Found a place & signed a 1-year lease. Now buying clothes.
- My $3.3M mistake: sive.rs/mistake
- Great press for my friend Bird York (@birdyork) : variety.com/2009/tv/features/featured-player-kathleen-bird-york-1118002558/
- Have you looked under the chickens? sive.rs/chickens
- Last month I asked, "What's the opposite of music?" My favorite answer: "business". :-)
- Old-timers projecting decaying health into the music biz: sive.rs/decaying
- Dreams are here. Details have changed. sive.rs/details
- I want to hear Brother Theodore do a cover of Shout
- Great advice for attending parties: gigaom.com/2007/06/24/how-to-work-the-room/
- Character predicts your future: sive.rs/character
- Sammy Cahn said thank you: sive.rs/sammy-cahn
- Have a goal you’ve been putting off? Let it go. It’s a bad goal. Goals shape the present, not the future. sive.rs/goals
- hearing Maya Solovey play at Union Hall, Brooklyn. She's great. mayasolovey.com
- Download the movie "Sita Sings the Blues" at sitasingstheblues.com and watch some night. So great! Read budurl.com/abna
- in NYC for a week.
- YES! FINALLY! My first earthquake!! (I'm in Santa Monica today.) Felt like a truck hit the house, then kept driving through it. Awesome.
- Read amazing "China Road" book in one sitting: amazon.com/dp/0812975243 I gotta do this: bikechina.com/t-bjxadh44.html
- 9-year-old playing Crazy Train by Ozzy : www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMD_L8IDZnc (start at 3 minutes if busy). Watch to the end!
- Working at Workspace in Vancouver today. GREAT place for freelancers. Beautiful view. google.com/search?q=workspace+vancouver
- Seth Godin's great summary of Tribes: sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/hubble-ultra-deep-field-in-3d/ ;-)
- India. Breathless description. ("It's madness! It's alive!") jakecooper.blogspot.com/2008/05/cup-of-chai.html
- Vancouver (BC) residents: I'm coming to Vancouver tonight for one week. No plans. Show me around? Email: [email protected]
- 1st time I heard CocoRosie was with Earl Gray in an Iceland café. Now playing with Earl Gray in Seattle café. www.cocorosieland.com/
- Microwaved cellphone. Awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7XwboOx98
- A: "I want to do something ambitious." B: "Like being a vet?" A: "No, I'm thinking big - like inventing a new animal."
- Rewriting sive.rs/blog software so it can be multi-lingual like musicthoughts.com
- Freaky Scrabble ads! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThCPpyoW7U www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ul3q1PexA
- Gone to Yosemite for a few days.
- Hmm... OK. So... What's the opposite of music?
- What's the opposite of a rut?
- Advice is cheap. Costs nothing to give. Easiest response when confronted with a problem. Addresses it without actually dealing with it.
- Fellow introverts, send this to your extrovert friends: www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch (Describes us introverts very well.)
- Watch with sound off: youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4 Get his permission to add your own music & re-upload = Great music video!
- Thinking of going to graduate school? Read first: chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/01/2009013001c.htm
- Going to sit all day at Kalpataru with Tina & Jeremy
- Found out I was a dad for 10 weeks.
- Back home in Seattle after months away. Had breakfast at Easy Street Records. I love it here.
- Realized I hadn't even turned on my TV+DVD in over 3 years, so I gave it to my neighbor. I love giving away unused stuff!
- Know a music school in the San Francisco area that could use a good upright piano? I have one to donate. Email me: sive.rs/contact
- "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
- A financial planner determines your investment strategy based on your goals. What if a time planner did that with investing your time?
- I can build computers from scratch, but bike repair is a mystery. So I got a book, tools & 2 busted bikes. Here I go.
- Lessons learned from a 19yr-old getting massive YouTube views of her music: www.newmusictipsheet.com/page.php?id=read_commentary_archives&comm_id=77 + www.youtube.com/user/jaaaaaaa
- I could never quite explain why Pixar is cool and Dreamworks is lame, but this helps: farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3398960470_05527c04b1_b.jpg
- My smoothie: apple juice, 2 fists-full of almonds, lots of (blue/black/straw/rasp)berries + 1 banana. Blend high until almonds gone.
- Não há nada pior que um bom princípio.
- Programming again. Something peaceful about the solitude of vi, a unix terminal, pgsql command-line, phpunit, and a cup of tea.
- SO impressed with easydns.com registrar. Great service all-around. Answered phone instantly on a Sunday. Use them instead of GoDaddy.
- Best talk I saw at TED: restoring a rainforest www.ted.com/index.php/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html
- video interviews about promoting and marketing your music: sive.rs/soundadvice
- registered for TED India! Let me know if you do the same: conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/
- Writing down all the things I'd regret not-doing if I was on my deathbed now, and making sure I do them ASAP. (Should take 2-3 years.)
- scuba diving in Dominica. (Pronounced "dom-in-EE-ca", rhymes with Puerto Rica.)
- Realized I haven't read blogs in weeks. Only check messages once a day. Continually ignoring distractions and increasing focus.
- At Parish in Austin seeing Lisa Hannigan and Jim Bianco.
- GREAT interview with Seth Godin about the music business: www.musicmarketing.com/2009/03/seth-godin.html (Thanks @davidhooper) Very worth 25 minute listen.
- daydreaming what we could build with Aerogel : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel www.youtube.com/results?&search_query=aerogel
- donated at sperm bank in Austin. (Will be frozen here for a few years, if anyone wants some.) Results came back quite virile.
- Posted new interview musicians might like, though I reveal what a hard-ass I am: sive.rs/2009-interview
- in Austin for SxSW for the next 10 days. (Cold & rainy here!)
- choosing a new city to live in. Vancouver? Hong Kong? (familiar+healthy vs exotic+learning) sive.rs/maslow
- just finished reading Emergency by Neil Strauss in one sitting. Fascinating book about survivalism: nature, urban, and disaster.
- FedEx'd my DNA to 23andme.com to find out why I'll die, etc. google.com/search?q=23andme
- p.s. EasyDNS is my 2nd-fave: easydns.com
- Thanks everyone! As for registrar: GoDaddy gives me advertising indigestion. Gandi is pure & cool. www.gandi.net/
- sive.rs : Is my site working for everyone? I moved DNS from GoDaddy to Gandi today www.gandi.net/ Much better registrar.
- What's a melody for? Interesting pondering: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2009/03/06/whats-a-melody-for/
- "What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind." - Henry Miller
- Whoa! For $1500 you could get a new laptop or... travel the entire world on changeable flights for an entire year.
- Middlemen: If you must explain your value, it's not as great as you think.
- The simpler and clearer, the better. To be simple is to be direct. To be direct is to be honest. To be honest is to be fully human.
- biked 52 miles in 5 hours in light rain over some pretty big hills. Phew!
- Awesome Surveillance Self-Defense site : ssd.eff.org/ (Click "Printer-friendly version" at bottom for easier reading.)
- leaving now on a 60-mile bikeride in the rain.
- Next time you order a pizza, ask for "light cheese. extra sauce." Tastes better & you feel better after. Let me know what you think.
- "Need to be social? Pretend to be an extrovert." - me. "You are whatever you pretend to be" - Kurt Vonnegut. Ooops. Becoming an extrovert.
- What do you do for feedback on a new song you're writing? sive.rs/songfeedback
- Don't you love completely-honest conversations? No sugar-coating or disclaimers. No exhausting translation.
- accepting all kinds of responsibility and power.
- 不要害怕錯誤。錯誤是不存在的。
- Awesome album promotion stunt: mashable.com/2009/02/20/josh-freese-album-promotion/
- A free, open song contest idea: sive.rs/song-contest-idea
- reading "What Would Google Do" by Jeff Jarvis, getting my mind blown with the possibilities.
- in Memphis Tennessee for the Folk Alliance conference: www.folkalliance.org
- GREAT talk by Elizabeth Gilbert about genius/creativity/inspiration: www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
- Feeling VERY at-home in New York City. Comfortable and familiar. Still the fastest walker. :-)
- at Future of Music conference but realizing I'm only into the creation of music+mktg. Where the actual creation stops, I lose interest.
- finished TED with one last conversation with Regina Spektor, Thomas Dolby, and walked Liz Gilbert back to her hotel.
- For healthy air, buy these plants: Areca Palm, Mother-in-law's Tongue, Money Plant. Details: greenspaces.in/blog/ted09/
- TED moment: in bathroom line in front of Bill Gates. Joked with him at sinks about mosquito release.
- found out Arabic, like Chinese, has many different spoken languages, all sharing the exact same written language.
- TED India will be Nov 4-7 in Mysore at Infosys campus. $2000. Registration opens by end of February. I'm in.
- Awww.... My hero Seth Godin just used me as an example in his presentation at TED!
- MIDI sequencing musicians will appreciate : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc
- ran 4 miles barefoot along foamy waves on the freezing Oregon coast. Stopped at midpoint, and water surrounded me waist-high. Rrrargh!
- turning a friend on to Fables : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_%28comics%29
- Article summing up the "Smithsonian 2.0" event I went to in D.C. last weekend: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/25/AR2009012502179_pf.html
- "He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows." - Joseph Campbell.
- going through 475 newly-submitted quotes at musicthoughts.com Only approving the best 10%. Costs me ~$20 each to have translated.
- re-launched MusicThoughts.com in 10 languages. Very exciting. sive.rs/see-musicthoughts + musicthoughts.com Enjoy!
- toured the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-style archives of the Smithsonian today. Understaffed, I think they need to embrace crowdsourcing.
- Flying to Washington DC for "Smithsonian 2.0 - A Gathering to Re-Imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age." si.edu/
- had duck and drinks in a dungeon with Steve Vai, Steve Corn, Sinem Saniye, as guests of the generous Frank Hessing, until 3am. C'est fini!
- 3rd day at MIDEM: Great to be here with no agenda. Wantless. Getting to know people for who they are, not what they can do for me.
- MIDEMnet: out of 55 speakers, only 2 are women. WTF?! Lopsided doesn't usually bother me, but this is ridiculous. MIDEMnet Committee=7 men.
- Leaving now for France for MIDEM Conference. Back Jan 25.
- Sax player next door has been playing for 10 hours straight. He's good! Now he's playing "Virgo", by Wayne Shorter. One of my faves.
- just bought cdbaby.com/cd/rubarth3 from CD Baby :-)
- How to be a full-time touring musician - a "Success Story" interview with Amber Rubarth : sive.rs/amber-rubarth
- I'm a piñata that needs to be broken open.
- Listening to Tom Waits' "Tango Till They're Sore" for the 100th time. Recommend you do the same. :-)
- having watermelon & beet juice. AMAZING! Try it next time you go to a real juice shop.
- good blog : lateralaction.com
- What advice would you give a 19-year-old guitarist who wants to be a session musician? Reply at sive.rs/session-musician
- When you hear someone complaining, here's what it means : sive.rs/complainers
- Jack LaLanne on nutrition: "If man made it, don't eat it." & "If it tastes good, spit it out."
- Checking ex-CDBaby bank account : Artists are still (today, 2009) cashing CDBaby checks written in 2005 & 2006! Get it while you can.
- Changed Twitter background to Iceland waterfall, while friend told me a long story on the phone. :-) See twitter.com/sivers
- Had Lunch, Tea, and Dinner with @lkr, @lian_amber, and @kailayu, respectively. All three very impressive & great conversationalists.
- Same reason I'm thinking of moving to India (+ some practicality for MuckWork): joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/01/01/moving-to-dubai.html
- Saw Seven Pounds because my friend Bird York's song was in climax : www.birdyork.com/ Couldn't take my eyes off gorgeous Rosario Dawson.
- Planning to go to Valparaíso some day, whether 6 days or 6 months : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valpara%C3%ADso
- I've seen it a dozen times in the last year but it still makes my eyes water : www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
- Twitter should change its constant question to "What are you learning?" Imagine answering THAT 10 times a day!
- Getting to the more peaceful place means getting past the original goal : sive.rs/getting-past-it
- Attending 9 conferences in next 3 months: MIDEM, Smithsonian2.0, TED, FutureOfMusic, FolkAlliance, ETech, SxSW, ASCAP, MusExpo.
- just realized how many smart people I know & would love to have over for dinner. (a few at a time)
- Do something new every 3 years : www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/12/do-something-ne.html (editor of Wired, author of Long Tail)
- Nobody’s going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you? See sive.rs/up2you and please reply there.
- stood next to Regina Spektor at a noisy club last night. I love her, but hate yelling, especially to my idol. So I said nothing.
- at a drum circle at Remo warehouse, shaking a maraca. Guest of Abe Thomas. Met Remo Belli himself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remo
- Interesting: Séamus Anthony's Purple Ocean Music Model : seamusanthony.com/a-purple-ocean-music-model
- Mutual admiration club with my twin @artsyave (Tina Su). Her amazing blog is my favorite inspiration: thinksimplenow.com Subscribe.
- Happiness is letting someone make you the villain : sive.rs/villain
- Attending a music biz conference? Here’s the REAL way to do it : sive.rs/conferences
- (in reply to a few who asked:) ALL of my music is at sive.rs/music Download by clicking title, or stream by clicking arrow. Enjoy!
- Used to listen to music while working but it's too distracting now. Can't block it out. Are most people ignoring? Is this a musician thing?
- Ebert's great review of Magnolia, one of my favorite movies: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-magnolia-1999
- Biked 30 miles in 2 hours while learning Mandarin www.amazon.com/dp/0071547363 Not tired when done. Life is good.
- Glad I could help your friends: www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html :-)
- You know you love your work when you get home from a party at 1:30am and get right back to work because you want to, not have to.
- You've all seen the one-woman acapella www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU by @imogenheap right? So inspiring. Can't get enough.
- James Fallows' writing about China in the Atlantic is addictive: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/their-own-worst-enemy/307056/
- Another great article by @cyberpr about how musicians can best use Twitter : www.musicthinktank.com/blog/twitter-is-radically-changing-the-way-musicians-are-building.html ← Recommended for newcomers.
- Just noticed I'm following exactly 1000 people now, and the pelican was update #100. How appropriate! Loving my brilliant musician buddies.
- A pelican shit in my mouth. Reminder: when seeing pelicans, don't look up and say, "Wow! Pelicans!" Yuk. Tastes like digested oyster shell.
- Interesting article about the incredible emphasis on music education in China : www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JL02Ad01.html
- Bought 3 books @ local store: amazon.com/dp/1591842239 + amazon.com/dp/1401922759 + amazon.com/dp/1401219136 :-)
- To my friends who just joined Twitter, here's another good article about how to get the most out of it : guykawasaki.com/how-to-use-twit/
- Santa Monica : "It's as if the French Riviera was 10 minutes from Paris."
- Wrote the basic core of MuckWork from scratch in 8 hours today, including fixtures and working unit tests. Whoo!
- Watching a chubby squirrel falling asleep (eyes closing) on a branch just 10 feet from me.
- Are people asking themselves questions about you? sive.rs/mystery
- Biked another 30 miles today with no exhaustion. Love noticing improvement. (Thanks for the concerned tweets from my last update. I'm OK.)
- Got hit by a car on my bike. Saw it coming. Gotta learn to get faster on my brakes.
- Got WAY sucked-in to bike-touring maps and journals like www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/NZ-1997-South-Island-PT-2 and www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3Tzut&doc_id=3279&v=20d Wow.
- All the cafés in Iceland were playing CocoRosie : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CocoRosie - I LOVE IT
- what I want from life is not what others want me to want
- Writing a translation program.
- Ariel Hyatt (@cyberpr) and I have 255 mutual friends on Facebook. :-)
- Finished writing phpunit tests for my first time, for multi-lingual MusicThoughts.
- Double-speed! Half-speed! Up an octave! Down an octave! sive.rs/more-than-one
- My email system tells me I've hand-written 6205 emails in the last 60 days. (That doesn't include the mass-mailings. Just actually typed.)
- 586 new emails (after spam & mailing lists removed) that need a reply. Oof. Here we go...
- Nobody knows the future - and it doesn't matter! sive.rs/no-oracle
- Amazing Warren Buffett editorial on why to invest NOW in U.S. stock market : www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html
- Great Obama article: www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17brooks.html - I always thought he was like Atticus Finch
- Need to break the comparison to others? sive.rs/uncomparable
- What's your grand pursuit? sive.rs/grand-pursuit
- realizing there are more Web 2.0 companies set up to help musicians than there are musicians.
- I finally answer "How was India?" : sive.rs/how-was-india
- What’s really keeping you from where you need to be? sive.rs/pigs-sharks
- Booked 2 hotel rooms for SxSW 2009, March 12-23.
- What should I do when someone says, “Let me know what you think!” of their music? sive.rs/letmeknow
- In Bangalore, re-learning Rails from the GREAT book: Rails Way
- Thinking maybe I should twitter more often, again.
- Loving the 75-degree Santa Monica weather so much I don't want to be anywhere else on earth, for once.
- Listening to Our Lips are Sealed by the Go Go's again and again and again and again
- Trying to make our shopping cart more foolproof.
- psyched about Open Social
- giving tech support to India :-)
- juggling freelancers around the world
- Nice! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors_%28compact%29
- fixing lots of little cdbaby.com things.
- how to feel powerless: be made to wait at home all day (8am to 8pm) for DSL installation. at 8pm be told they couldn't make it.
- Moved into a new flat in Neal's Yard, Covent Garden.
- Finished cdbaby.com rewrite. (That was the ambitious thing I started a few weeks ago.)
- digging into PayPal docs for the first time since 2000 or so.
- doing cdbaby.com checkout process with new MVC + classes
- (that wasn't the ambitious thing, though. i'll tell that next week.)
- converted the country-sensitive address formatting system over from Ruby to PHP. it rules! the ~130 countries have 17 different ways t ...
- the ambitious thing is going amazingly well.
- replacing cdbaby's cart with new Cart class
- watching a mouse walk in my open window
- programming cart class, still
- programming cart class
- full day of programming ahead : Wells IACH, .com DL cart, zipmaker
- emailing. nothing but emailing. catching up on 6 weeks of unanswered email. fun fun fun.
- planning the many ways hostbaby could be much better
- programming artist-search / similar-artists stuff
- Fuck yeah! PyLucene artist matching done. Incorporating into site.
- No.. giving up on PyLucene until API update or PyL downdate.
- PyLucene artist matching parsing soundslikes into artists
- finished members' DD section after a lovely uninterrupted 14 hour stint, today
- programming members' DD opt-in/out restrictions
- not
- programming members' login area: the DD signup/edit section (more)
- programming members' login area: the DD signup/edit section
- programming members' login area: uncoupling songs from albums, make-new-album process
- Spent entire 7 hours programming time getting Java/Lucene working...
- programming members' login area: uncoupling songs from albums, make-new-album process, Java/Lucene soundslike separations.
- break from programming for meeting
- programming members' login area, though 4.5 hours after intended starting point
- finished Wells Fargo Payment Manager, though docs disagree with XSD validation.
- programming Wells Fargo Payment Manager XML outputs
- stopping working to read newest Fables while acting sick
- turning ISO 3166-2 codes into Location class again.
- turning ISO 3166-2 codes into Location class. fascinating stuff. (really!)
- programming Wells Fargo Payment Manager XML outputs
- testing twitter from IM
- Setting up twitter to work with mobile and IM
- Signed on to Twitter. Working. Don't expect updates here often, yet.
