Derek Sivers

Author and Programmer · 2 appearances on the record.

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He founded CD Baby in 1998, which became one of the largest online distributors of independent music before he sold it in 2008. He is also the author of books including Anything You Want, Hell Yeah or No, and How to Live.

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2 assertions · 2 opinions · 14 insights · 8 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Disclosure
Sivers tags every idea from books read since 2007 into a database
“I'm tagging every single one of those ideas from every book I've read since 2007. I'm tagging them with keywords and loading them into a database.”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 47:55 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sivers holds driver's licenses from five different countries
“I have five different driver's licenses from five different countries, and I have, like, Four different resident ID cards, and a few different passports from different countries, and yeah”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 1:34:30 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation

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Who brings them up most Seth Godin 2Shane Parrish 1James Clear 1

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
TKP Insights: Philosophy Jul 4, 2023 7m
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation Jul 21, 2020 1h 13m
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