Articles:

• 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
• About my book notes
• How to Live: conclusion
• Here’s how to live: Balance everything.
• Here’s how to live: Make change.
• Here’s how to live: Make a million mistakes.
• Here’s how to live: Don’t die.
• Here’s how to live: Create.
• Here’s how to live: Love.
• Here’s how to live: Reinvent yourself regularly.
• Here’s how to live: Get rich.
• Here’s how to live: for others.
• Here’s how to live: Prepare for the worst.
• Here’s how to live: Laugh at life.
• Here’s how to live: Follow the great book.
• Here’s how to live: Learn.
• Here’s how to live: Value only what has endured.
• Here’s how to live: Chase the future.
• Here’s how to live: Be a famous pioneer.
• Here’s how to live: Do whatever you want now.
• Here’s how to live: Pursue pain.
• Here’s how to live: Let randomness rule.
• Here’s how to live: Master something.
• Here’s how to live: Make memories.
• Here’s how to live: Intertwine with the world.
• Here’s how to live: Think super-long-term.
• Here’s how to live: Do nothing.
• Here’s how to live: Fill your senses.
• Here’s how to live: Commit.
• Here’s how to live: 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.
• Creative communication
• Considerate 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?
• If only one percent 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.
• Are you present-focused or future-focused?
• You have enough.
• 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