232: Useful Not True, with Derek Sivers
Update: 2025-06-17
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Derek Sivers joins us to talk about personal agency, idea ownership, saying no, and (of course) journaling.
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Derek Sivers
CD Baby
Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers
How to Start a Movement | TED Talk
Useful Not True | Derek Sivers
Anything You Want | Derek Sivers
Your Music and People | Derek Sivers
How to Live | Derek Sivers
How to do what you love and make good money | Derek Sivers
One big choice shapes a hundred more | Derek Sivers
Vim
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Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
Book I've Read | Derek Sivers
Pandoc
What I’m doing now | Derek Sivers
What I’m Doing Now | MacSparky
Contact | Derek Sivers
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