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Sivers would immediately give away $100M because wealth distracts from learning
“Like if you were to give me a hundred million dollars, I just give it right away because I just won't use it for anything. I just don't want it. All the things that I love the most in life, just learning, thinking, and creating, it doesn't take any money. And …”
Sivers left San Francisco because he hated everyone thinking like him
“I actually, I tried living in San Francisco for a little while. I had to leave after a few months. I hated it because everybody thinks like me. And so I'm happier living in a place like Singapore, where most people don't think like me.”
Sivers distills core ideas from books into concise eight-word statements
“I underline every surprising or interesting idea that I want to think more about later. And so then when I'm done, I take all of those underlying ideas and I put them into a text file. I usually just kind of put them into my own words. I remove They're unneces…”
Musician Amber Rubarth originally coined the 'Hell Yeah or No' framework
“Amber Rhubarth is actually the one that said, so basically you're not trying to decide between yes and no, you're deciding between fuck yeah and no. I just laughed and I loved it and I, So I blogged about it the next day. I changed the word to hell to soften i…”
After selling CD Baby, Sivers planned to change his name and disappear
“My plan was to legally change my name and disappear into Europe and be an open source programmer.”
Sivers obsessively focuses on one pursuit at a time for months
“I just don't find myself to be that kind of person that can do one thing for an hour and something else for two hours, and then this for an hour, and this for 30 minutes, that I just, I throw myself Completely into whatever I'm doing, almost to a fault. I love…”
Sivers hired and trained his replacement before quitting Warner Chappell
“So I found someone to replace me. It was an old friend that I knew would be perfect for the job. I knew that she would do it really well. She had the right temperament. She was in the right stage of her life. I knew that she'd be psyched about it, and Really g…”