Derek SiversMe in 10 seconds
I’ve been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher.
I started CDBaby and HostBaby, until I felt done, then gave them away. My audio/book about it tells you everything I learned in one hour.
Now I’m a writer, programmer, and student.
I’m fascinated with the usable psychology of self-improvement, business, philosophy, and culture. I love finding a different point of view.
INTJ, minimalist, solitary socialite, and a very slow thinker.
California native. I now live in New Zealand and Singapore.
Deeply happy and anti-drama, my favorite fable is 塞翁失马.
Here’s what I’m doing now.
Contact
Please read why you should contact me, then introduce yourself.
Newest Articles see all
Popular Articles see all
- Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
- No yes. Either HELL YEAH or no.
- Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
- The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
- Why I gave away my company to charity
- You don’t have to be local
- Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
- What if you didn’t need money or attention?
- Nobody’s going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you?
- Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
Interviews
Through 2015, I got personal and poured my heart into 40 hours of interviews.
Each one has an MP3 you can download, or a transcript if you prefer to read.
Projects see all projects
- Book Notes
- detailed notes from the last 230+ books I’ve read
- Now Now Now
- a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page
- MusicThoughts
- inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文
- sivers.org
- the hand-crafted Ruby code that makes this site
Books
- Anything You Want
- Tales from my CD Baby experience: Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
- Marketing Your Music
- Free e-book for musicians about promoting your music and navigating the music industry.
- Wood Egg Startup Guides
- 20 books about starting a business in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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.
Photos (click for big)
Tweets see all tweets
- December 30
- Quitting something you love: https://sivers.org/quit
- December 29
- What I'm doing now : https://sivers.org/now (updated today)
- December 27
- I'm a solitary socialite : https://sivers.org/soso
- December 25
- Spent 2 riveted hours tonight doing http://lernu.net/en/kurso/nakamura section 1. First time with Esperanto ever. What a cool language!
- December 22
- In 2016, I answered 30,904 emails from 11,971 people. Here are the answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions : https://sivers.org/faq
- December 19
- How to do what you love and make good money : https://sivers.org/balance