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Derek Sivers

author · in 13 sources (2018–2020)

Speaks in 3 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2018: 1 · 2019: 6 · 2020: 6

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali, a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University, is co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants, and has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years.

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

The 4-Hour Workweek (3) · Tim Ferriss (4) · Kindle (4) · aliabdaal.com (2) · The Tim Ferriss Show (2) · passive income (2) · Evernote (2) · Notion (3) · 6med (2) · iPad Pro (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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 · also in: How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs
  • 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
  • 2019-12-11 · 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
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2018