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Derek Sivers · 49 korrents · 18 pieces · sive.rs

Bangalore India hospital flow2 korrents · 3 Sept 2026

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  1. The rule of volume contradicts the common instinct that a more expensive surgery is better than a cheaper one.
  2. A disorderly flow where everything opportunistically takes the effective path and exploits gaps is natural, like water flowing around obstacles.
Netizen2 korrents · 3 May 2026

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  1. Contributing to the internet without monetizing it is still the right way to be online, even after the surrounding culture stopped doing it.

    personal websites

  2. Not monetizing what you put online now reads as strange behaviour that has to be explained.

    personal websites

I was inconsiderate but now I'm everywhere2 korrents · a turn · 12 Mar 2026

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  1. Publishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.

    personal websites

  2. Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.

    personal websites

Offline 23 hours a day3 korrents · 3 Mar 2026

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  1. Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.

    creativity

  2. Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.

    AI and human skill

  3. A hard limit on how long you are online is what makes the time online focused.
What is “the truth” really for?3 korrents · 20 Jan 2026

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  1. Nobody actually decides on the facts -- emotion decides and facts rationalise, so you find whatever truth is useful to you.

    politics

  2. Facts deployed as weapons in an argument can win the exchange without settling the disagreement.

    politics

  3. One good story outweighs a mountain of evidence, because most emotions cannot be argued with.

    politics

Beliefs are not facts2 korrents · 5 Jan 2026

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  1. No belief is true: the moment something is proven it stops being a belief and becomes a fact.
  2. Anything introduced with “I believe” is, by that fact alone, not something everyone can see to be true.
https://sive.rs/2025-05-dt9 korrents · 14 May 2025 · no page here yet

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  1. When something repulses you, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.
  2. When you start a business, you get to make all the rules and decide how things should work without following norms.

    startups

  3. As much as possible, one should avoid predicting the future and instead wait for it to become the present and reveal what is actually needed.
  4. Changing one's mind is life; stopping flip-flopping means being a dead fish.
  5. Hell yeah or no is a situational tool for when overwhelmed by too many options, not a constant life approach everyone should always use.
  6. Kids have their own lives and parents should not try to apply their rules to them.

    family

Come and get me (both you and AI)2 korrents · 6 Dec 2024

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  1. Writing your thinking down in public is a form of life after death -- for human readers and for the language models that will read it too.

    LLMswriting

  2. A personal website is an autobiography, and everyone should have one.

    personal websites

Wealth = Have ÷ Want3 korrents · a turn · 27 Sept 2024

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  1. Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.
  2. Earning more is an outer game you do not control; wanting less is an inner game you do.
  3. Looking for ways to make more money is how you get to feeling well off.
Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship2 korrents · a turn · 20 Apr 2023

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  1. Burning your bridges to force yourself forward is worth what it costs.
  2. Removing your own ability to retreat is how you make yourself follow through on a hard change.
Writing one sentence per line3 korrents · 20 Jun 2022

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  1. Writing one sentence per line, for your own eyes, improves prose more than any other habit.

    writing

  2. A sentence that cannot justify a line of its own should be deleted.

    writing

  3. Weak openings like “I think” should be cut, and a sentence started on its subject and verb.

    writing

Write plain text files5 korrents · 2 Mar 2022

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  1. Everything you write that matters belongs in plain text files, because they are the only format that stays portable, non-commercial and readable for a lifetime.

    personal websites

  2. Storing your own writing in a company's proprietary format is a mistake, because you will outlive the company.

    personal websites

  3. Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.

    personal websites

  4. Nothing you depend on to write should require an internet connection.

    writing

  5. A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.

    personal websiteswriting

Digital pollution2 korrents · 15 Oct 2019

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  1. Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.

    software performancecode generation

  2. Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

    software performancecode generation

If you're not feeling “hell yeah!” then say no3 korrents · 3 Jun 2018

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  1. Say no to anything that is not an enthusiastic yes, because a life full of half-hearted commitments leaves no room for the things worth doing.

    ambition

  2. The hell-yeah rule is for people who are already overwhelmed; someone starting out should say yes to almost anything.

    ambition

  3. Do almost nothing, and do the few things you take on all the way.

    ambition

Disconnect2 korrents · 27 Jul 2016

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  1. The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.

    Addictiondesignsocial media

  2. Consuming what everyone else consumes gives you no advantage; focus is the rare and valuable thing now.

    ambition

Make a dream come true1 korrent · 4 Jul 2011

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  1. Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.
Obvious to you. Amazing to others.1 korrent · 21 Nov 2010

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  1. Everybody's own ideas seem obvious to them, so what is obvious to you may be amazing to someone else.
Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?2 korrents · 21 Oct 2008

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  1. Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.

    language learning

  2. The first thing to do in a new language is to imitate its accent completely, before the words.

    language learning