Derek Sivers

Me in 10 seconds

California native, I now live in New Zealand.

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

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

Go to the search page to search for any word or phrase.

Doubt everything. No beliefs are true. Adopt what works for you now.

My masterpiece. Best thing I’ve ever made. My soul in a book.

Useful wisdom. Simple profound mental models to guide your decisions.

Get your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected.

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.

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

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.