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Smart people don't think others are stupid(sive.rs)

62 points by andsoitis 12 days ago | 49 comments

A 2012 short essay by Derek Sivers arguing that dismissing groups of people as stupid shows a lack of understanding, from his book Hell Yeah or No.

My life was changed by four sentences in four books(sive.rs)

17 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 5 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)(sive.rs)

161 points by downbad_ 3 months ago | 42 comments

Geography is four-dimensional(sive.rs)

24 points by galfarragem 5 months ago | 11 comments

Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008)(sive.rs)

30 points by tosh 1 year ago | 11 comments

Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)(sive.rs)

87 points by rmason 2 years ago | 47 comments

How and why to make a /now page on your site(sive.rs)

171 points by sarimkx 2 years ago | 60 comments

Write Plain Text Files(sive.rs)

36 points by arguflow 2 years ago | 13 comments

AI gives the news you need(sive.rs)

6 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 0 comments

Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian(sive.rs)

45 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 42 comments

How I Backup(sive.rs)

81 points by twapi 2 years ago | 67 comments

Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)(sive.rs)

81 points by tosh 2 years ago | 41 comments

Walk and Talk(sive.rs)

75 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 27 comments

Derek Siver's shell script for tech independence(sive.rs)

64 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 10 comments

Tech Independence(sive.rs)

98 points by jjude 3 years ago | 32 comments

Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)(sive.rs)

93 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 57 comments

The past is not true(sive.rs)

375 points by swah 3 years ago | 319 comments

Derek Sivers essay recounting how a car crash memory he carried for years turned out to be false, arguing our memories of the past are unreliable.