Derek Sivers's Blog: Derek Sivers, page 3
August 24, 2022
Anything You Want — third edition for 2022
In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize.
July 25, 2022
scuba, panic, empathy
I used to scoff at those people who had panic attacks. “The cake is late! Oh no! I’m freaking out! I can’t breathe!” Ridiculous. Hysterical. Over-reacting.
June 19, 2022
writing one sentence per line
My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else.
June 18, 2022
the joke that changed my life
Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures.
March 23, 2022
Ancestors, Luck, and Descendants
My Sivers ancestors came from Grantham, Lincolnshire, England on a boat to America in 1849. The boat crashed on rocks in the Irish sea, caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean, got pushed off course repeatedly by storms, and finally landed in New Orleans after two months. New Orleans was overcome with cholera, so they hopped a steam boat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. Cholera killed nine passengers and the pilot of the boat. Days after they arrived in St. Louis, the city caught fire so they escaped in a covered wagon to Glenwood Iowa, finally arriving after three more months. In 1890, one of their sons ventured to the wild west of Colorado to pursue an opportunity.
October 5, 2020
Transformative Principal
On education, parenting, and encouraging focus
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September 23, 2020
Productivityist
Why I don’t like holidays, How to Live, how constraints give you more freedom
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August 9, 2020
The Speaking Show
Making a shift in your life, goals, a specific plan to only do what makes you happy, being rich
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August 2, 2020
Long Distance Love Bombs
Big fun questions. Five types of thinking and how to improve them, achieving success and motivation, deliberate daydreaming.
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July 31, 2020
Pausecast
A guided pause, living life as a series of grand experiments, asking yourself questions, possible futures, and the Muppets
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