me in 10 seconds
I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.
I’m a slow thinker, explorer, xenophile, and love a different point of view.
California native, I now live in New Zealand.
Me in 10 minutes?
See my “/about” page.
What am I doing now?
See my “/now” page.
Contact me
I love meeting people, and I reply to every email, so say hello.
my books
Useful Not True
Doubt everything. No beliefs are true. Adopt what works for you now.
How to Live
My masterpiece. Best thing I’ve ever made. My soul in a book.
Hell Yeah or No
Useful wisdom. Simple profound mental models to guide your decisions.
Your Music and People
Get your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected.
Anything You Want
40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur. My tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
See the foreign publishers of my translated books.
projects
- Book Notes
- detailed notes from the last 430+ books I’ve read
- Now Now Now
- a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page
- Tech Independence
- step-by-step instructions to set up your own server and break dependency on the cloud
- Conversations in…
- when I travel, I meet with people who have emailed me
- Inchword
- tools to help people translate books
- Books that reference me
- excerpts from books that have written about me
- MusicThoughts
- inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文
interviews
You can listen to over 250 interviews, where I’m the guest.
Each one has audio, sometimes video, and a full transcript.
photos
articles
- I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere
- About my book notes
- Offline 23 hours a day
- More books on this subject
- What next?
- Reframing death
- You are what you pretend to be
- Keep tuning and adjusting
- Take the first step immediately
- Why your choice is wrong
- Talk with friends to solidify it
- Private journal to internalize it
- No new instructions for the computer
- From explorer to self-leader
- How to decide and make the best choice
- An awesome collection of great questions
- Five tiny tales of reframing
- Traits of useful perspectives
- Expand your repertoire
- Diamond in the trash
- Answer great questions
- Who chooses your (next) thoughts?
- The most useful part of this book
- Philosophies are instruments
- What is “the truth” really for?
- Life is _______
- Placebo meanings
- Magic mirror shows what you need to believe
- Which perspective empowers you?
- Judge the contents, not the box
- Carpenters’ tools
- Religion is action, not belief
- Useful?
- Beliefs → emotions → actions
- A daily run and imagination
- Bowling: curve into the target
- Fill your senses with reality
- Your first thought is an obstacle
- The more emotional the belief, the less likely it’s true
- Beliefs are not facts
- Make believe
- Hanging inherited paintings
- Re-edit your mind’s movies
- You can’t trust your mind
- You are the strange one
- That was about you, not them
- Bridge guard, revisited
- Fake or real? True or false? So what?
- Even science isn’t true
- Wanna bet?
- The past is not true
- Memories are not accurate
- The brain invents explanations
- Try to find their incentives
- Cultural meanings
- Obligations are not true
- Rules are a starting point, not the final answer
- Bridge guard
- Separate events and interpretation
- People share perspectives, not facts
- No picture is the whole picture
- Perspectives feel real
- What time is it?
- What’s this about?
- Why did I move to New Zealand?
- How to listen to Ulysses
- the birth and reverb of friendship
- a relationship that ended, not failed
- Have I been married?
- Why are my best friends Jewish?
- One big choice shapes a hundred more
- Come and get me (both you and AI)
- I’m in the final third of my life
- I love the contradiction of religions
- The first time I met someone who believes in God
- Dismissed!
- I hated Dubai until I learned about it
- To question is to consider, not refute
- Rats are surprisingly sweet pets
- We don’t need to use what we make
- Wealth = Have ÷ Want
- How to sync Mac and Linux /home
- How to make the best possible translation of a book?
- How and why to make a /now page on your site
- the best book ever written
- Ben Kihnel
- It shows what you need to believe
- AI gives the news you need
- How to learn JavaScript
- How I backup
- Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian
- walk and talk
- The past is not true
- dashing dog, searching for purpose
- $575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.
- The joy and freedom of harmlessly upsetting social norms
- Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship
- the Michael Browne suits
- Curve into the target
- Thinking something nice about someone? Tell them.
- 50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai
- Explorers are bad leaders
- Travelling just for the people
- Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery.
- I want to lose every debate.
- Conversations with Tyler Cowen
- Reading the Bible start to finish
- Make believe
- Daily run, part two
- Static HTML comments
- Daily run, part one
- Your explanations are not true
- Shortest date, and ketchup
- full-length videobook for “Your Music and People”
- Anything You Want — third edition for 2022
- Scuba, panic, empathy
- Writing one sentence per line
- The joke that changed my life
- Find a good available .com domain
- Travel is best with young children
- Short URLs: why and how
- Ancestors, Luck, and Descendants
- Why I left America
- Write plain text files
- Generate unique random values directly in the database
- Database triggers to clean text inputs
- Database functions to wrap logic and SQL queries
- Database trigger recalculates totals, for data integrity
- Conclusion
- Balance everything.
- Make change.
- Make a million mistakes.
- Don’t die.
- Create.
- Love.
- Reinvent yourself regularly.
- Get rich.
- Live for others.
- Prepare for the worst.
- Laugh at life.
- Follow the great book.
- Learn.
- Value only what has endured.
- Chase the future.
- Be a famous pioneer.
- Do whatever you want now.
- Pursue pain.
- Let randomness rule.
- Master something.
- Make memories.
- Intertwine with the world.
- Think super-long-term.
- Do nothing.
- Fill your senses.
- Commit.
- Be independent.
- Considerate book pricing
- How many pets do you have?
- $250K books sold. $250K to save lives.
- Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes.
- Experiments in music and life
- Writing daily, but posting when ready
- How I got rich on the other hand
- Podcast published today
- When in doubt, try the difference
- Why experts are annoying
- What you learn by travelling
- PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
- Mastery school
- Monthly self-expansion project
- Living according to your hierarchy of values
- How to ask your mentors for help
- When you win the game, you stop playing
- Digital pollution
- Cut out everything that’s not surprising
- Heed your fears
- Daydreaming is my favorite pastime
- Anti-chameleon
- Where we do and don’t want automation
- Human nature to focus on the one bad thing
- Back and forth between super-hot and super-cold
- Err on the side of action, to test theories
- Blowing off work to play
- What happens when we ignore plans?
- Tour -isms
- Meta-considerate
- Daydreaming the downside, for once
- Where to find the hours to make it happen
- Your heroes show which way you’re facing
- Don’t quote. Make it yours and say it yourself.
- Have a private email account
- Future posthumous autobiography
- Cross the world four times
- What I did belies why
- Would you make your art if you were the last person on earth?
- Travel without social praise
- Travel without a phone
- initialize
- My old clothes don’t fit
- Doors and windows and what’s real
- I’ve moved from New Zealand to Oxford England
- Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
- Subtract
- The art of selfishness
- You don’t need confidence, just contribution.
- Unlearning
- If you’re not feeling “hell yeah!” then say no
- About this book
- OpenBSD : why and how
- Moving for good
- Detailed dreams blind you to new means
- Include everyone in your success
- My writing process
- Keep in touch
- Be an extreme character
- Get specific!
- What it means to be resourceful
- Rock stars have a boss?
- Never wait
- The higher the price, the more they value it
- Considerate communication
- Creative communication
- Get personal
- Pedestals prevent friendships
- Use the internet, not just companies
- Move to the big city
- Why you need a database
- Shed your money taboos
- Pricing philosophy
- Art doesn’t end at the edge of the canvas
- It’s hard to get off stage
- “Marketing” just means being considerate
- Repeatedly follow-up to show you care
- Unlikely places and untangled goals
- What are the odds of that?
- Parenting : Who is it really for?
- To hone your writing, hire a translator.
- Ego is the Enemy
- Actions, not words, reveal our real values
- Think like a bronze medalist, not silver
- Art is useless, and so am I
- Quitting something you love
- Solitary socialite
- Frequently Asked Questions
- How to do what you love and make good money
- Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)
- Why are you doing?
- I’m a very slow thinker
- Keep earning your title, or it expires
- When you’re extremely unmotivated
- Disconnect
- Don’t add your two cents
- Possible futures
- Singing the counter-melody
- How to stop being rich and happy
- How to be useful to others
- How to thrive in an unknowable future
- What to do when you get successful
- How to get rich
- How to like people
- Do this. Directives — part 1
- Don’t start a business until people are asking you to
- Interviews at sive.rs/i
- Why I don’t promote
- Happy, Smart, and Useful
- Assume men and women are the same
- Beware of advice
- Overcompensate to compensate
- How to take a compliment
- Why I don’t want stuff
- Should you learn programming? Yes.
- Switch strategies
- nownownow.com
- The /now page movement
- Relax for the same result
- Saying no to everything else
- “Just tell me what to do”: compressing knowledge into directives
- Simplify: move code into database functions
- Getting out of a bad state of mind
- How to change or build your career
- Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset
- I love being wrong
- You can afford to be generous
- Lose every fight
- Every interaction is your moment to shine
- Customer service is everything
- The philosophy of great customer service
- Loving what I used to hate
- The Meaning of Life
- Change careers like Tarzan
- What if you didn’t need money or attention?
- How will this game end?
- Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.
- Understanding Vietnam
- Understanding Singapore
- Understanding Indonesia
- Understanding Japan
- Same word. Different places? Different meanings.
- Wood Egg 2014 books are on sale now
- Jac Holzman
- Why am I here?
- Why my code and ideas are public
- OK Milt, I’ll start writing again
- Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan
- Wood Egg (my new company)
- Some will always say you’re wrong
- No rules in this game
- Seeking inspiration?
- The Great Movies
- Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage
- It’s all who you know?
- Focus, entertain, or both?
- Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software
- Everything is my fault
- You don’t have to be local
- Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone.
- Smart people don’t think others are stupid
- Advice on moving to Los Angeles
- Friends from memory
- The co-op business model: share whatever you’ve got
- 232 sand dollars
- Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or”
- You make your perfect world
- Delegate, but don’t abdicate
- Make it anything you want
- It’s about being, not having
- Prepare to double
- It’s OK to be casual
- Little things make all the difference
- The most successful email I ever wrote
- Like you don’t need the money
- Care about your customers more than about yourself
- You don’t need a plan or a vision
- Why no advertising?
- Proudly exclude people
- Formalities play on fear. Bravely refuse.
- Start now. No funding needed.
- The advantage of no funding
- Just like that, my plan completely changed
- If it’s not a hit, switch
- This ain’t no revolution
- A business model with only two numbers
- Make a dream come true
- Just selling my CD
- What’s your compass?
- Ten years of experience in one hour
- Anything You Want (my first book)
- Projecting meaning
- Fish don’t know they’re in water
- Don’t be a donkey
- I moved to Singapore
- Any questions?
- There’s no place like home
- Delegate or die: the self-employed trap.
- Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
- Why wreck a blank canvas?
- The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
- KarmaList wishlist?
- Valuable to others, or only you?
- Quit quirks when working with others
- My loss
- I assume I’m below average
- How to get hired
- How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
- After fifteen years of practice
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto’s guitarist
- Naïve Quitting
- Thursday = Thor’s day
- A real person, a lot like you
- Flip it in your favor
- First Follower idea is all yours
- First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy
- Don’t punish everyone for one person’s mistake
- There are always more than two options
- Big catalog = infinite specialty shops
- Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy
- Papa Bill: I don’t need to worry about you.
- Put buskers online
- "Online" marketing = "Color" TV
- Why I gave my company to charity
- There’s no speed limit
- Shine a spotlight on one idea at a time.
- The challenge: Don’t speak in future tense.
- Trust, but verify
- Let pedestrians define the walkways
- Fela Kuti
- Confidence required
- If you think you haven’t found your passion…
- Doesn’t feel like work (or I’ve forgotten)
- Learning the lesson, not the example.
- How I knew I was done with my company
- You should feel pain when unclear
- How do you grade yourself?
- Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one
- What’s the difference between like, love, and in-love?
- And if only 1% of those people…
- Does your company really want to hang out with me?
- Biking
- Venue for audience to mix their own audio
- Emphasize meaning over price
- Is there such a thing as too much freedom?
- Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don’t fight it.
- Safety
- Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?
- Does it help to be desperate? Part 2
- Does it help to be desperate?
- Climbing ladders
- My heroes
- Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
- How to send personalized emails
- Sprezzatura
- What do you hate not doing?
- Musician’s own website as definitive source of all info
- No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.”
- A computer that would require kids to be creative to use it
- I miss the mob
- Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do
- Tom Williams, hired by Apple at 14
- Barking
- The power of no reward
- The mirror: It’s about you, not them.
- Semi-experts: profit by saving us time
- Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded
- Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi
- Early drafts of great work are encouraging
- Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable
- Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.
- Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
- Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them
- That’s version infinity. First launch version 0.1.
- Show success before asking for help
- Why you need your own company
- MusicThoughts update : inspiring quotes for music-makers
- How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
- You have enough.
- Are you present-focused or future-focused?
- Some people like to pay. Let them
- Are fans telling friends? If not, don’t promote
- The security of no security
- What super-power do you want?
- You need to be profitable to last
- My $3.3M mistake
- Have you looked under the chickens?
- Not what it used to be!
- Character predicts your future
- Sammy Cahn said thank you
- Goals shape the present, not the future.
- Aimee Mullins
- Accelerate change
- My favorite fable
- What do you do for feedback on a new song you’re writing?
- Ideas to Reality
- A free, open song contest idea
- MusicThoughts.com
- Amber Rubarth on being a full-time touring musician
- Advice for a 19-year-old guitarist who wants to be a session musician.
- Complainers
- Don’t... if you think it’s going to make you happy
- Getting past it
- Assume nobody is going to help you
- Happiness is letting someone make you the villain
- How to attend a conference
- Make mystery : make people wonder
- Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
- This is just one of many options
- Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?
- Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change
- The Grand Pursuit
- Uncomparable: anchor a new mama
- Are you at the starting line or the finish line?
- Mastering entrepreneurship?
- Small actions change your self-identity
- Iceland
- 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
- I interview Tim Ferriss about the 4-Hour Workweek
- Reversible business models
- Bye-Bye, Baby!
- Ah, to own nothing!
- Songwriters who don’t perform
- Action-Reaction
- A Musician’s Advice About the College Market
- Selling music by solving a specific need
- How was India?
- Don’t promote until people can take action
- two three four ONE, two three four ONE
- Aim for the edges
- Restrictions will set you free
- Eliminating the time between thinking something and doing it
- If I had a record label, would you be signed to it?
- Circle of influence — Circle of concern
- Piracy is not the problem
- What should I do when someone says, “Let me know what you think!” of their music?
- Never have a limit on your income
- Whatever scares you, go do it
- Happy 10th Birthday to CD Baby — and an announcement
- The strength of many little customers
- The public you is not you
- 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
- Compass in your gut
- Ignore advice that drains you
- Stay in over your head
- You don’t get extreme results without extreme actions
- Be a competent novice, not an expert
- Have someone work the inside of the industry
- Assume the basic sale, and go for quantity
- Get rejected, get filtered
- Photos of your audience on your website
- Put your fans to work
- Call the destination, and ask for directions
- Your interactive website
- Promo bits, ready to copy
- Or you can not talk at all
- Describe your music like a non-musician
- Without a good reason, they won’t bother
- Hillbilly Flamenco
- Don’t know how to describe your music?
- Make people curious in one sentence
- When your music can’t speak for itself
- Shining example: Rayko
- Life is like high school
- Small gifts go a long way
- Don’t be afraid to ask for favors
- Always think how you can help someone
- Meet three new people every week
- Stay in touch with hundreds of people
- Persistence is polite
- Don’t be a mosquito
- Every breakthrough comes from someone you know
- Captain T
- Business is creative
- This is only a test. See what happens
- Direct it yourself
- Was 10%, now 90%
- A good plan wins no matter what happens
- Test marketing
- Well-rounded doesn’t cut
- A hundred actors on stage
- Don’t try to sound big
- Touch as many of their senses as you can
- People search harder for the obscure
- If you target sharp enough, you will own your niche
- The most expensive vodka
- Proudly exclude most people
- A curious answer to the most common question
- Use the tricks that worked on you
- Constantly ask what they really want
- How to get through the gates?
- It’s just people inside the machine!
- Some quick context for these stories
- What’s inside this book
tweets
- 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
book notes
- Maintenance of Everything, part one - by Stewart Brand
- You’re Not Listening - by Kate Murphy
- Kingdom of Characters - by Jing Tsu
- At the Existentialist Café - by Sarah Bakewell
- Existentialism: A Beginner’s Guide - by Thomas Wartenberg
- Argumentative Indian - by Amartya Sen
- Factfulness - by Hans Rosling
- Art of Spending Money - by Morgan Housel
- Charisma Myth - by Olivia Fox Cabane
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - by Michele Gelfand
- How to Know a Person - by David Brooks
- In Praise of Commercial Culture - by Tyler Cowen
- Mathematica - by David Bessis, Kevin Frey
- Vagabonding - by Rolf Potts
- Create Your Own Economy - by Tyler Cowen
- Advice on Upskilling - by Justin Skycak
- Cosmopolitanism - by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Half Known Life - by Pico Iyer
- Waste Books - by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Breakneck - by Dan Wang
- Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East - by Christopher Phillips
- Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East - by Gerard Russell
- Knowledge, Reality, and Value - by Michael Huemer
- Voters as Mad Scientists - by Bryan Caplan
- Islam Explained - by Ahmad Rashid Salim
- Asian 21st Century - by Kishore Mahbubani
- Fossil Future - by Alex Epstein
- The Myth of the Rational Voter - by Bryan Caplan
- Labor Econ Versus the World - by Bryan Caplan
- Don’t Be a Feminist - by Bryan Caplan
- How Evil Are Politicians? - by Bryan Caplan
- Belt and Road - by Bruno Maçães
- Has China Won? - by Kishore Mahbubani
- No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits - by Dan Kennedy
- New China Playbook - by Keyu Jin
- Co-Intelligence - by Ethan Mollick
- Political Thought of Xi Jinping - by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung
- The Network State - by Balaji Srinivasan
- All the Ghosts in the Machine - by Elaine Kasket
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Game Theory - by Edward Rosenthal Ph.D.
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior - by Dan Millman
- Connecting the Dots - by Sam Brinson
- Wish Lanterns / China’s New Youth - by Alec Ash
- Age of Ambition in the new China - by Evan Osnos
- Other Rivers - by Peter Hessler
- River Town - by Peter Hessler
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine - by Bryan Caplan
- The Invention of the Jewish People - by Shlomo Sand
- Hold On to Your Kids - by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
- In This Economy? - by Kyla Scanlon
- Unboxing Bengaluru - by Malini Goyal and Prashanth Prakash
- SuperBetter - by Jane McGonigal
- Linguistics: A Complete Introduction - by David Hornsby
- The Stoic Challenge - by William B. Irvine
- The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz
- This Is Strategy - by Seth Godin
- Philosophy of Software Design - by John K. Ousterhout
- Chile Culture Smart - by Caterina Perrone
- Guru’Guay Guide to Montevideo - by Karen Higgs
- Argentina Culture Smart - by Mary Godward and Robert Hamwee
- Colombia Culture Smart - by Kate Cathey
- Mexico Culture Smart - by Russell Maddicks
- This Is Mexico - by Carol Merchasin
- Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - by Eliot Weinberger
- Dawn of Eurasia - by Bruno Maçães
- From Rebel to Ruler - by Tony Saich
- Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - by Batja Mesquita
- Dreaming in Chinese - by Deborah Fallows
- China’s World View - by David Daokui Li
- The Everything Token - by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
- Methods of Persuasion - by Nick Kolenda
- Persuasion Story Code - by David Garfinkel
- Arabs - by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance - by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
- Questions Are the Answer - by Hal B. Gregersen
- Arabian Sands - by Wilfred Thesiger
- The Alchemist - by Paulo Coelho
- The Power of Regret - by Daniel Pink
- The Vagabond’s Way - by Rolf Potts
- Prototype Nation - by Silvia M. Lindtner
- The Silk Roads - by Peter Frankopan
- The Religious Case Against Belief - by James P. Carse
- Finite and Infinite Games - by James P. Carse
- Cyprus Culture Smart - by Constantine Buhayer
- Palestine a Four Thousand Year History - by Nur Masalha
- Anchored - by Lucas Skrobot
- The Barbell Prescription - by Jonathon M. Sullivan
- Israel: the Misunderstood Country - by Noa Tishby
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - by Friedrich Nietzsche
- You Can Negotiate Anything - by Herb Cohen
- How Minds Change - by David McRaney
- How Religion Evolved - by Robin Dunbar
- Excellent Advice for Living - by Kevin Kelly
- Rebel Talent - by Francesca Gino
- Swisstory, History of Switzerland - by Laurie Theurer
- Nothing & Everything - by Val N. Tine
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - by Janelle Shane
- City of Gold: Dubai - by Jim Krane
- The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur - by Mike Michalowicz
- Rich Dad Poor Dad - by Robert Kiyosaki
- Useful Delusions - by Shankar Vedantam
- UAE Culture Shock - by Gina Crocetti Benesh
- The Righteous Mind - by Jonathan Haidt
- Pragmatism as a Way of Life - by Ruth Anna and Hilary Putnam
- Outlive - by Peter Attia
- UAE Culture Smart - by John Walsh
- What’s in It for Them? - by Joe Polish
- The Essentials of Hinduism - by Swami Bhaskarananda
- Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hinduism - by Linda Johnsen
- Delphi Complete Works of William James - by William James
- Pragmatism - by William James
- Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judaism - by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
- What Makes Us Human - by GPT-3, Jasmin Wang, and Iain Thomas
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) - by Carol Tavris
- Loving What Is - by Byron Katie
- Useful Belief - by Chris Helder
- Introducing Pragmatism - by Cornelis de Waal
- Pragmatism an Introduction - by Michael Bacon
- Japanese Mind - by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno
- Essays One - by Lydia Davis
- Everything in Its Place (Work Clean) - by Dan Charnas
- Everything Is Obvious - by Duncan Watts
- Write Useful Books - by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Code - by Charles Petzold
- Wild Problems - by Russ Roberts
- The Biggest Bluff - by Maria Konnikova
- How to Know Everything - by Elke Wiss
- Relationship Handbook - by George Pransky
- Nietzsche: a complete introduction - by Roy Jackson
- The Secrets of Story - by Matt Bird
- Philosophy: a Complete Introduction - by Sharon Kaye
- What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam - by John L. Esposito
- The Art of Loving - by Erich Fromm
- Almost Perfect - by Erika Lemay
- Awaken the Giant Within - by Tony Robbins
- The Socrates Express - by Eric Weiner
- The Courage to Be Happy - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Essays and Aphorisms - by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur - by Sahil Lavingia
- Wanting - by Luke Burgis
- Four Thousand Weeks - by Oliver Burkeman
- 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing - by Gary Provost
- Beyond Order - by Jordan Peterson
- The Art of Creative Thinking - by Rod Judkins
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - by Arnold Bennett
- River Out of Eden - by Richard Dawkins
- Crush It - by Gary Vaynerchuk
- How to Think More Effectively - by the School of Life
- The Five Rings - by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Tao of Wu - by RZA
- The Question Behind the Question - by John Miller
- The Me, Me, Me Epidemic - by Amy McCready
- Musashi - by Eiji Yoshikawa and Charles Terry
- Story - by Robert McKee
- Shoe Dog - by Phil Knight
- Will - by Will Smith and Mark Manson
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - by Robert Fulghum
- Aesop’s Fables - by Aesop and George Fyler Townsend
- Nonviolent Communication - by Marshall Rosenberg
- Writing to Learn - by William Zinsser
- The Listening Book - by W.A. Mathieu
- Open Borders - by Bryan Caplan
- Grow Rich With Peace of Mind - by Napoleon Hill
- How Buildings Learn - by Stewart Brand
- Where Is My Flying Car? - by J Storrs Hall
- Editing Humanity - by Kevin Davies
- The Data Detective - by Tim Harford
- Skip the Line - by James Altucher
- The Box - by Marc Levinson
- Before We Go - by Dan John
- Attempts - by Dan John
- Fallen Leaves - by Will Durant
- The Beginning of Infinity - by David Deutsch
- Getting Things Done - by David Allen
- Several Short Sentences About Writing - by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- The Good Ancestor - by Roman Krznaric
- The Practice - by Seth Godin
- The Art of Possibility - by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
- Consider This - by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Psychology of Money - by Morgan Housel
- The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy - by Donald Robertson
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies - by Rob Willson and Rhena Branch
- The Elements of Style - by William Strunk
- Skin in the Game - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- No More Mr. Nice Guy - by Robert Glover
- Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction - by Duncan Pritchard
- Stillness Is the Key - by Ryan Holiday
- True Style - by G. Bruce Boyer
- The Complacent Class - by Tyler Cowen
- Indistractable - by Nir Eyal
- The New York Nobody Knows - by William Helmreich
- Prisoners of Geography - by Tim Marshall
- Finland Culture Shock - by Deborah Swallow
- This Is Marketing - by Seth Godin
- Everything Is Fucked - by Mark Manson
- Pre-Suasion - by Robert Cialdini
- The Alter Ego Effect - by Todd Herman
- Stubborn Attachments - by Tyler Cowen
- Life 3.0 - by Max Tegmark
- Surviving AI - by Calum Chace
- How Not to Be Wrong - by Jordan Ellenberg
- Brain Rules for Aging Well - by John Medina
- The Tao of George Carlin - by George Carlin
- Poking a Dead Frog - by Mike Sacks
- Atomic Habits - by James Clear
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - by Yuval Noah Harari
- Die Empty - by Todd Henry
- Watching the English - by Kate Fox
- The Artist’s Journey - by Steven Pressfield
- The Geometry of Wealth - by Brian Portnoy
- The Consolations of Philosophy - by Alain De Botton
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - by Richard Feynman
- The Courage to Be Disliked - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Story of Philosophy - by Will Durant
- Swiss Watching - by Diccon Bewes
- Never Split the Difference (Negotiating) - by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- Thinking in Bets - by Annie Duke
- Mindfulness in Plain English - by Henepola Gunaratana
- The Lessons of History - by Will and Ariel Durant
- When - by Daniel Pink
- 12 Rules for Life - by Jordan Peterson
- Getting the Love You Want - by Harville Hendrix
- Lying - by Sam Harris
- How Music Works - by David Byrne
- Perennial Seller - by Ryan Holiday
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree - by Eric Barker
- Homo Deus - by Yuval Noah Harari
- Innumeracy - by John Allen Paulos
- Principles - by Ray Dalio
- How to Live - by Sarah Bakewell
- The Way of the Linguist - by Steve Kaufmann
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - by David Eagleman
- Peak Performance - by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
- Tools of Titans - by Tim Ferriss
- Sapiens - by Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Read a Book - by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Adler
- The Dip - by Seth Godin
- Happy - by Derren Brown
- The Daily Stoic - by Ryan Holiday
- The Road Less Traveled - by M. Scott Peck
- Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French - by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - by Mark Manson
- Grit - by Angela Duckworth
- Leading an Inspired Life - by Jim Rohn
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - by Adele Fabe and Elaine Mazlish
- The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik
- Money: Master the Game - by Tony Robbins
- And Never Stop Dancing - by Gordon Livingston
- Ego Is the Enemy - by Ryan Holiday
- Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit - by Steven Pressfield
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - by Jared Diamond
- The Inevitable - by Kevin Kelly
- Playful Parenting - by Lawrence Cohen
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - by Anders Ericsson
- Steal Like an Artist - by Austin Kleon
- Total Recall - by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need - by Andrew Tobias
- Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - by Gordon Livingston
- Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change - by Pema Chödrön
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - by Leonard Mlodinow
- Deep Work - by Cal Newport
- Simple Rules - by Donald Sull
- Zero to One - by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- Quirkology - by Richard Wiseman
- Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches - by Marvin Harris
- Germany: Unraveling an Enigma - by Greg Nees
- Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - by Richard Nisbett
- The Geography of Genius - by Eric Weiner
- How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World - by Harry Browne
- The Truth - by Neil Strauss
- Writing Tools - by Roy Peter Clark
- The Future of Almost Everything - by Patrick Dixon
- Wilde in America - by David M. Friedman
- The Sense of Style - by Steven Pinker
- The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster - by Darren Hardy
- On Writing Well - by William Zinsser
- A More Beautiful Question - by Warren Berger
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - by Russ Roberts
- Me, Inc. - by Gene Simmons
- The Wisdom of No Escape - by Pema Chödrön
- A Mind for Numbers - by Barbara Oakley
- Make It Stick - by Peter Brown
- When Things Fall Apart - by Pema Chödrön
- Smartcuts - by Shane Snow
- Seeing What Others Don’t - by Gary Klein
- The Power of No - by James and Claudia Altucher
- Superhuman by Habit - by Tynan
- Mindwise - by Nicholas Epley
- Flex - by Ben Fletcher and Karen Pine
- Complexity: A Guided Tour - by Melanie Mitchell
- Never Let Go - by Dan John
- Fluent Forever - by Gabriel Wyner
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - by Mason Currey
- Geography of Time - by Robert Levine
- The Compound Effect - by Darren Hardy
- When Cultures Collide - by Richard D. Lewis
- The Obstacle Is the Way - by Ryan Holiday
- The Antidote - by Oliver Burkeman
- Decisive - by Chip and Dan Heath
- Show Your Work - by Austin Kleon
- How to Learn a Foreign Language - by Paul Pimsleur
- Man’s Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl
- Toilet Training in Less Than A Day - by Nathan Azrin
- Your Memory - by Kenneth L. Higbee
- Choose Yourself! - by James Altucher
- How to Learn and Memorize French Vocabulary - by Anthony Metivier
- Give and Take - by Adam M. Grant
- The Story of French - by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
- The Bed of Procrustes - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Making Ideas Happen - by Scott Belsky
- Island - by Aldous Huxley
- Ready for Anything - by David Allen
- The Philosophical Baby - by Alison Gopnik
- In Pursuit of Silence - by George Prochnik
- Bird by Bird - by Anne Lamott
- Self Reliance - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Starting Strength - by Mark Rippetoe
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams
- 5 Elements of Effective Thinking - by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
- Ikigai - by Sebastian Marshall
- Antifragile - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Now Habit - by Neil Fiore
- The Willpower Instinct - by Kelly McGonigal
- The Icarus Deception - by Seth Godin
- The Laws of Subtraction - by Matthew May
- Mastery - by Robert Greene
- The 4-Hour Chef - by Timothy Ferriss
- Wired for Story - by Lisa Cron
- Turning Pro - by Steven Pressfield
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You - by Cal Newport
- No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy
- Mastery - by George Leonard
- Pragmatic Programmer - by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
- Quiet - by Susan Cain
- The Little Book of Talent - by Daniel Coyle
- Drop Dead Healthy - by A. J. Jacobs
- What Technology Wants - by Kevin Kelly
- The Power of Habit - by Charles Duhigg
- Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius and C Scot Hicks and David V Hicks
- The Passionate Programmer - by Chad Fowler
- Meditation for Beginners - by Jack Kornfield
- The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield
- The Developing World - by Fredrik Härén
- The Checklist Manifesto - by Atul Gawande
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
- You Are Not So Smart - by David McRaney
- Brain Rules for Baby - by John Medina
- Do the Work - by Steven Pressfield
- The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries
- Cambodia’s Curse - by Joel Brinkley
- Willpower - by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
- Power of Full Engagement - by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - by Marshall Goldsmith
- Hiring Smart - by Pierre Mornell
- Program or Be Programmed - by Douglas Rushkoff and Leland Purvis
- A Gift to My Children - by Jim Rogers
- Moonwalking with Einstein - by Joshua Foer
- Practicing Mind - by Thomas Sterner
- Little Bets - by Peter Sims
- One Simple Idea - by Stephen Key
- Fail-Safe Investing - by Harry Browne
- Poke the Box - by Seth Godin
- The Personal MBA - by Josh Kaufman
- The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger - by Bud Labitan
- Focus - by Leo Babauta
- Seeking Wisdom - by Peter Bevelin
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - by Haruki Murakami
- Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur - by Stuart Skorman
- The 4-Hour Body - by Tim Ferriss
- Hire With Your Head - by Lou Adler
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - by Alain De Botton
- Linchpin - by Seth Godin
- Cognitive Surplus - by Clay Shirky
- Mindset - by Carol Dweck
- Art and Fear - by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- Start Small, Stay Small - by Rob Walling and Mike Taber
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - by William Irvine
- The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins
- Drive - by Daniel Pink
- Hackers & Painters - by Paul Graham
- Nudge - by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- Making a Good Brain Great - by Daniel G. Amen
- The Upside of Irrationality - by Dan Ariely
- Confessions of a Public Speaker - by Scott Berkun
- Switch - by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- On Writing - by Stephen King
- The Happiness Hypothesis - by Jonathan Haidt
- Life Without Lawyers - by Philip K. Howard
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich - by Ramit Sethi
- Being Logical - by D.Q. McInerny
- Business Stripped Bare - by Richard Branson
- The Geography of Bliss - by Eric Weiner
- Pomodoro Technique Illustrated - by Staffan Nöteberg
- Born Standing Up - by Steve Martin
- Committed - by Elizabeth Gilbert
- What the Dog Saw - by Malcolm Gladwell
- Conspiracy of the Rich - by Robert Kiyosaki
- Talent Is Overrated - by Geoff Colvin
- The Investor’s Manifesto - by William J. Bernstein
- How We Decide - by Jonah Lehrer
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - by Andy Hunt
- The Productive Programmer - by Neal Ford
- Crash Proof 2.0 - by Peter Schiff
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes - by Gilovich and Belsky
- Discover Your Inner Economist - by Tyler Cowen
- The Profit Zone - by Adrian Slywotzky
- The Talent Code - by Daniel Coyle
- Causing a Scene - by Charlie Todd
- Influence - by Robert Cialdini
- Never Eat Alone - by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
- Rapt - by Winifred Gallagher
- Overachievement - by John Eliot
- Ignore Everybody - by Hugh MacLeod
- Born to Run - by Christopher McDougall
- Radical Honesty - by Brad Blanton
- The Great Formula - by Mark Joyner
- China Road - by Rob Gifford
- The How of Happiness - by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- The Think Big Manifesto - by Michael Port and Mina Samuels
- The China Study - by Campbell and Campbell
- Lucky Or Smart? - by Bo Peabody
- Enough - by John Bogle
- Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell
- How to be a Billionaire - by Martin Fridson
- Management of the Absurd - by Richard Farson
- The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
- Reality Check - by Guy Kawasaki
- What Would Google Do? - by Jeff Jarvis
- The Power of Less - by Leo Babauta
- Personal Development for Smart People - by Steve Pavlina
- Tribes - by Seth Godin
- The Culture Code - by Clotaire Rapaille
- Speaking of India - by Craig Sorti
- How to Talk to Anyone - by Leil Lowndes
- CrowdSourcing - by Jeff Howe
- Brain Rules - by John Medina
- Hot Commodities - by Jim Rogers
- Predictably Irrational - by Dan Ariely
- A Bull in China - by Jim Rogers
- The Magic of Thinking Big - by David Schwartz
- Cut to the Chase - by Stuart Levine
- You, Inc - The Art of Selling Yourself - by Harry Beckwith
- How to Get Rich - by Felix Dennis
- The Ultimate Sales Machine - by Chet Holmes
- The Four Pillars of Investing - by William Bernstein
- Richard Branson - by Losing My Virginity
- The Art of Learning - by Josh Waitzkin
- The 4-Hour Work Week - by Tim Ferriss
- The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read - by Daniel R. Solin
- Wikinomics - by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
- The Wisdom of Crowds - by James Surowiecki
- Here Comes Everybody - by Clay Shirky
- Fooled by Randomness - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Founders at Work - by Jessica Livingston
- The Culting of Brands - by Douglas Atkin
- Meatball Sundae - by Seth Godin
- The Obsolete Employee - by Michael Russer
- Don’t Make Me Think - by Steve Krug
- The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less - by Barry Schwartz
- Stumbling on Happiness - by Daniel Gilbert
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - by T. Harv Ecker
- Made to Stick - by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Execution - by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- Know-How - by Ram Charan with Geri Willigan
- The Art of Project Management - by Scott Berkun
- Maximum Achievement - by Brian Tracy
- The Innovator’s Solution - by Clayton Christensen
- Small is the New Big - by Seth Godin
- The Art of Profitability - by Adrian Slywotzky
- E-Myth Revisited - by Michael Gerber
- The 48 Laws of Power - by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
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