Derek Sivers

me in 10 seconds

California native, I now live in New Zealand.

I love meeting people, and I reply to every email, so say hello.

self-expansion: personal development, exploring, learning, expanding identity
Useful Not True: reframing: choosing a helpful perspective, understanding others
writing: writing, journaling, publishing
Anything You Want: entrepreneur lessons from starting, growing, selling my company
programming / tech: programming, web, servers, PostgreSQL, OS, home tech, code
Hell Yeah or No: fixing faulty thinking, making things happen, what’s worth doing
saying no: minimalism, enough, rejecting norms, self-reliance, satiability
How to Live: actionable directives, in a perspective taken to its conclusion
Your Music and People: considerate marketing, calling attention to your creative work
money and career: working, building, leading, business, direction
international: cultural psychology, amateur anthropology, understanding places
other people: interpersonal understanding, personal profiles
autobiography: stuff about me, ideally useful for you
this site: announcements and behind the scenes of my websites

See the foreign publishers of my translated books.

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