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Derek Sivers

Minimalist life philosophy, entrepreneurship wisdom, and unconventional thinking from the CD Baby founder who sold his company for $22 million then gave it away

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To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start
September 23rd, 2026•sive.rs
Bangalore India hospital flow
September 3rd, 2026•sive.rs
Building without predicting
August 18th, 2026•sive.rs
Writing for Emotional Impact - by Karl Iglesias
May 22nd, 2026•sive.rs
My life was changed by four sentences in four books
May 12th, 2026•sive.rs
Geography is four-dimensional: https://sive.rs/4d
May 6th, 2026•sive.rs
Geography is four-dimensional
May 5th, 2026•sive.rs
1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen
May 4th, 2026•sive.rs
Netizen
May 3rd, 2026•sive.rs
I’m not autistic, but my heroes are.
April 29th, 2026•sive.rs
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.”
April 27th, 2026•sive.rs
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.”
April 27th, 2026•sive.rs
Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at https://sive.rs/book/Tribal
April 25th, 2026•sive.rs
Fascinating book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - https://sive.rs/book/Conscious19 - uses one true story, 19 times, of the laughing brain patient - https://sive.rs/u12 - in the format of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - https://sive.rs/book/WangWei - to explore the subject.
April 23rd, 2026•sive.rs
Great book: Elephant in the Brain: https://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.
April 22nd, 2026•sive.rs
Travelling While Black - by Nanjala Nyabola
April 20th, 2026•sive.rs
Tribal - by Michael Morris
April 16th, 2026•sive.rs
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - by Patrick House
April 8th, 2026•sive.rs
Elephant in the Brain - by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
March 30th, 2026•sive.rs
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.
March 25th, 2026•sive.rs