Me in 10 seconds

I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.

I’m a slow thinker, explorer, xenophile, and I 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 new people, and I reply to every email, so say hello.

Who have I met?

When I travel, I meet with people who have emailed me.

AI usage?

Everything here is written by me, personally, not an AI.

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Books

See the foreign publishers of my translated books.

Newest Articles see all

• Have I been married?
• Why are my best friends Jewish?
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• Come and get me (both you and AI)
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• I love the contradiction of religions

Popular Articles see all

• Parenting : Who is it really for?
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Projects

Tech Independence

step-by-step instructions to set up your own server and break dependency on the cloud

Book Notes

detailed notes from the last 360+ books I’ve read

Now Now Now

a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page

Inchword

tools to help people translate books

MusicThoughts

inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文

Videos

TED (ted.com)

3 short talks from the TED Conference.

Anything You Want

7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”.

Uncommon Sense

Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.

Conference Presentations

Talks from other conferences, all subjects.

Interviews

You can listen to over 80 hours of interviews, where I’m the guest.

Each one has an MP3 you can download, or a transcript if you prefer to read.

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