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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 23/09/2026

To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start: sive.rs/book/TurkeyCS

Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 22/09/2026

When walking a city, what do different experts notice that you don’t? Fun book on this: On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz. My notes: sive.rs/book/OnLooking

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 22/09/2026

Very good China book, following four real women in current China: Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang. My notes: sive.rs/book/ChinaFourWomen

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 13/09/2026

Best food I’ve ever eaten: When in Finland go to liemi.fi and order SHANGHAI TACOS WITH HALLOUMI. I had them every day for four days.

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 03/09/2026

Bangalore India hospital flow: sive.rs/inflow

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 31/08/2026

Notes from Bangalore, India, where I spent most of two weeks in a hospital, and the rest with friends: sive.rs/met/at-15

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 18/08/2026

Building without predicting. (The story of how I built my perfect home.) sive.rs/fit

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 27/07/2026

I write to see what I can write. I code to see what I can code.

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 12/07/2026

17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: sive.rs/met/at-14

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 12/07/2026

16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: sive.rs/met/at-13

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 12/06/2026

India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026 Want to meet? Email me: sive.rs/contact

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 21/05/2026

Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else in life is better the second time?

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 14/05/2026

Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 13/05/2026

My life was changed by four sentences in four books : sive.rs/4s4b

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 07/05/2026

Geography is four-dimensional: sive.rs/4d

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 04/05/2026

1993 communal internet shaped me: sive.rs/netizen

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 29/04/2026

I’m not autistic, but my heroes are.

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 27/04/2026

Since we moved from city to rural land, to a house where the bathroom and kitchen are outside, my boy observed: “This year there are way more full moons.”

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 27/04/2026

My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.”

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 25/04/2026

Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at sive.rs/book/Tribal

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 23/04/2026

Fascinating book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - sive.rs/book/Conscious19 - uses one true story, 19 times, of the laughing brain patient - sive.rs/u12 - in the format of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - sive.rs/book/WangWei - to explore the subject.

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Derek Sivers @sive.rs · 22/04/2026

Great book: Elephant in the Brain: sive.rs/book/BrainMo... You have hidden motives and subconscious incentives. Two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Instititutions do this too: wasteful because they’re serving hidden purposes no one acknowledges.

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Elephant in the Brain - by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson | Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

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