Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
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Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
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Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#2Surprised to find this here.
For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things:
#1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list.
#2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprising to me - like if I'd already read a few books on the subject - then I'll have very few notes. It doesn't mean the book isn't good. These notes are really just for me, and I started sharing them as an afterthought.
#3 : If you want summaries, I hear https://www.blinkist.com/ does that.
#4 : If you want the see code for my site, it's all open at https://code.sivers.org/ - basically a little self-made static site generator in Ruby.
If you have any questions, just email me. Email address in my HN profile here.
- Derek
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#3Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…
Always found your notes useful, helps me decide whether to read a book.
An alternative to blinkist is https://www.getabstract.com/en/
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#4It's a long list, and reading from the bottom up (where the lower rated books are) is good fun.
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#5Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…
A small basic question.
How do you implement all the different ideas for a good life that you find in all different books that you read?
It's very tough for me to do so. More often than not, I get lost and drift aimlessly.
Thanks for the excellent list :)
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#6Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…
Blinkist asks you to pay after some time. That's what deters me.
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#7Derek is such an inspiring guy - check out the Tim Ferris Podcast with him if you haven't already.
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#8Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…
Regarding the Mindwise book, I recently read Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis where he talks about (at least what I interpreted) the silliness of good vs evil and differing beliefs. I haven't read his 2nd book but the title - " The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion", suggests it might be something similar to the Mindwise book.
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#9Slight OT, I had two questions:
a. how do you guys apply the stuff you read?
b. How many re-reads helps you get most out of the book?
I am on a recent reading spree and as I read the books I keep forgetting the lessons therein. While I have set of highlights, using Play Books and Google docs combo, one thing I found was that 2nd read seems to be better than the first one.
Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
#10Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…
Great list, Derek. Do you use Goodreads to organize your reading, by any chance? Your author profile would seem to be unclaimed over there: