Derek Sivers' Book Notes

1.
The Art of Startup Fundraising
The Art of Startup Fundraising 4.03 avg rating — 801 ratings
2.
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #JointheRide
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #JointheRide 4.32 avg rating — 3,051 ratings
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek 3.91 avg rating — 324,790 ratings
4.
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy 4.19 avg rating — 26,607 ratings
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction 4.24 avg rating — 30,211 ratings
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The War of Art
The War of Art 3.98 avg rating — 113,875 ratings
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by: Jim Loehr
3.98 avg rating — 15,508 ratings
7.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 3.95 avg rating — 123,671 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,828 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating — 170,819 ratings
11.
The E-myth Revisited
The E-myth Revisited 4.07 avg rating — 94,072 ratings
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The Compound Effect
The Compound Effect 4.21 avg rating — 64,191 ratings
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph 4.15 avg rating — 95,767 ratings
14.
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger 4.22 avg rating — 4,760 ratings
15.
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength 3.95 avg rating — 20,624 ratings
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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. 4.03 avg rating — 26,518 ratings
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 4.01 avg rating — 165,264 ratings
18.
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love 4.07 avg rating — 48,923 ratings
19.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business 4.10 avg rating — 46,039 ratings
19.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture 3.92 avg rating — 4,925 ratings
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Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine
Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine 4.05 avg rating — 8,128 ratings
22.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 4.15 avg rating — 381,786 ratings
22.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy 4.14 avg rating — 84,558 ratings
24.
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life 3.75 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
25.
Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating — 63,113 ratings
25.
Do the Work
Do the Work 3.97 avg rating — 20,740 ratings
27.
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success 3.88 avg rating — 6,551 ratings
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love 4.07 avg rating — 48,923 ratings
29.
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want 3.77 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
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Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow 3.99 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
31.
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It 4.08 avg rating — 12,324 ratings
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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization 3.98 avg rating — 9,904 ratings
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When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures 3.97 avg rating — 558 ratings
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time 3.83 avg rating — 8,239 ratings
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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking 4.04 avg rating — 15,951 ratings
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Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future
Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future 4.14 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered 4.10 avg rating — 58,502 ratings
37.
The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice
The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice 4.11 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
39.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 4.10 avg rating — 56,006 ratings
39.
Turning Pro
Turning Pro 4.15 avg rating — 13,941 ratings
41.
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It 4.13 avg rating — 33,018 ratings
42.
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills 4.02 avg rating — 8,505 ratings
42.
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers 4.11 avg rating — 9,696 ratings
44.
What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants 3.73 avg rating — 7,175 ratings
44.
The Boron Letters
The Boron Letters 4.18 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
46.
Scientific Advertising
Scientific Advertising 4.07 avg rating — 3,675 ratings
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The Developing World: How an Explosion of Creativity in the Developing World Is Changing the World, and Why the Developed World Has to Start Paying Attention.
The Developing World: How an Explosion of Creativity in the Developing World Is Changing the World, and Why the Developed World Has to Start Paying Attention. 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone
Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone 4.35 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,661 ratings
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman 4.18 avg rating — 27,468 ratings
51.
The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup
by: Eric Ries
4.11 avg rating — 356,025 ratings
51.
The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space 4.19 avg rating — 827 ratings
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful 3.95 avg rating — 30,856 ratings
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard 4.03 avg rating — 54,276 ratings
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom 4.09 avg rating — 43,679 ratings
56.
The Geography of Bliss
The Geography of Bliss 3.84 avg rating — 38,202 ratings
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The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between
The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between 4.14 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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How We Decide
How We Decide 3.84 avg rating — 41,298 ratings
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Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth 3.96 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating — 129,373 ratings
61.
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds 3.82 avg rating — 24,614 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less 3.83 avg rating — 36,353 ratings
63.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 3.98 avg rating — 97,584 ratings
64.
The Innovator's Solut!on: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
The Innovator's Solut!on: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth 4.06 avg rating — 13,716 ratings
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Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas 3.83 avg rating — 4,565 ratings
66.
The Art of Profitability
The Art of Profitability 3.95 avg rating — 992 ratings
67.
The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness
The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness 4.28 avg rating — 7,929 ratings
68.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times 4.27 avg rating — 61,846 ratings
69.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,625 ratings
70.
How to Learn a Foreign Language
How to Learn a Foreign Language 3.90 avg rating — 451 ratings
71.
Choose Yourself!
Choose Yourself! 3.82 avg rating — 13,338 ratings
72.
Self-Reliance
Self-Reliance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
73.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life 4.06 avg rating — 20,259 ratings
74.
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? 4.04 avg rating — 17,492 ratings
75.
Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work 4.15 avg rating — 13,941 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,754 ratings
77.
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development 3.94 avg rating — 4,344 ratings
78.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,083 ratings
79.
Poke the Box
Poke the Box 3.77 avg rating — 14,615 ratings
80.
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age 4.05 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
81.
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Confessions of a Public Speaker 3.94 avg rating — 5,100 ratings
82.
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity 4.06 avg rating — 27,073 ratings
83.
What Would Google Do?
What Would Google Do? 3.87 avg rating — 10,575 ratings
84.
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
by: Jeff Howe
3.84 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
85.
The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals
The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals 3.67 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
86.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything 3.73 avg rating — 10,986 ratings
87.
Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? 3.72 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
88.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done 3.87 avg rating — 26,663 ratings
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power 4.10 avg rating — 210,259 ratings