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All statements about Derek Sivers

19 statements about Derek Sivers in 13 sources, by upload date.

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2020

  • 2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — recommendation: Ali: Taking Derek Sivers's idea that what is obvious to you might be amazing to others, Ali says we can and should share what we have discovered and learned instead of holding back ideas as obvious. — 00:04:17
  • 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: On a billboard Ali would put "it won't make you happy", an answer from a Tim Ferriss Show guest, perhaps Seth Godin or Derek Sivers; he reminds himself of it when buying things, as it is true of most things we buy. — 00:10:29
  • 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: With Apple Music's Pure Country station playing on the HomePod, Ali rereads one of his favourite books, Derek Sivers's Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Ali is trying to get better at saying no, which is always hard because people's requests are usually so reasonable; he likes Derek Sivers's framing of when to say no. — 00:02:48
  • 2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Derek Sivers (quoted): Derek Sivers says that early in a career it helps to say yes to everything to maximise opportunities, but once demands on your time pile up you switch to "hell yeah or no", with no middle ground. — 00:03:18
  • 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali: The first person Ali saw publish book notes was Derek Sivers, whom he has followed since 2016 and who was on Deep Dive; Sivers has hundreds of book notes on his website. — 00:10:04
  • 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — announcement: Ali wants to reach the point where all his book summaries are on his website at aliabdaal.com/booknotes. — 00:10:35
  • 2020-11-03 · How to SPEED READ — Ali is working on putting his book notes on his website, as a list of every book he has read with reviews, ratings, notes and summaries. — 00:09:37

2019

  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — recommendation: Ali says pretty much everyone should read Derek Sivers's Anything You Want, a half-hour read with lessons for life as well as for entrepreneurship. — 00:06:16
  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says Derek Sivers set up CD Baby, grew it to an 18-person operation with millions in revenue, sold it for about $20 million and gave the money to a charitable trust for music education. — 00:06:16
  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Derek Sivers (quoted): In Anything You Want, Derek Sivers writes that when MBA types ask his growth rate and projections, he says he has no idea: he started his company as a hobby to help friends, there is money in the bank and he is fine. — 00:08:06
  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Derek Sivers (quoted): In Anything You Want, Derek Sivers writes: never forget why you are really doing what you do; if you help people, they are happy, you are happy and you are profitable, isn't that enough? — 00:08:35
  • 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — recommendation: Ali: As starting points for book recommendations, Ali names the three books of his video Three Books That Changed My Life: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, Anything You Want by Derek Sivers and Show Your Work by Austin Kleon. — 00:08:34
  • 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — announcement: Ali has started making notes and says that at some point he will publish them all on his website, as Nat Eliason and Derek Sivers, whom he calls his mate, do; he is working on it. — 00:10:32
  • 2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — Ali: Around 2015–2016 SixMed's revenue stagnated and dipped and competitors arrived; Ali no longer enjoyed running it, until he found Derek Sivers's book Anything You Want. — 00:13:26
  • 2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — Ali says Anything You Want takes about 20 minutes to read and gives Derek Sivers's lessons from setting up CD Baby and eventually selling it for $22 million. — 00:13:56
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali's podcast queue also holds Noah Kagan and many episodes of Derek Sivers's new podcast, each only about a minute long. — 00:07:15
  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali's other 2019 life lessons include window openers versus door knockers, from a podcast; "obvious to you, amazing to others", from a Derek Sivers blog post; the flywheel, from what he thinks was a Jim Collins interview on The Tim Ferriss Show; and master boring fundamentals. (hedged) — 00:08:59

2018