I’ve been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher.
Monomaniac, introvert, slow thinker, and love finding a different point of view.
California native, I now live in New Zealand.
Me in 10 minutes?
See my “about” page.
What am I doing now?
See my “now” page.
What do I use?
See my “uses” page.
Contact me?
See why you should, though read my frequently asked questions, first.
Books
Not quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It’s a work of art about conflicting philosophies.
Useful wisdom. Simple profound mental models to guide your decisions.
Get your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected.
40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur. My tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
See the foreign publishers of my translated books.
Newest Articles see all
- a daily run
- Your explanations are not true
- shortest date, and ketchup
- full-length videobook for “Your Music and People”
My private email list
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Projects
Book Notes detailed notes from the last 320+ books I’ve read a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page Inchword tools to help people translate books MusicThoughts inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文
Videos
TED (ted.com) 3 short talks from the TED Conference. 7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”. Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby. Conference Presentations Talks from other conferences, all subjects.
Interviews
You can listen to over 80 hours of interviews, where I’m the guest.
Each one has an MP3 you can download, or a transcript if you prefer to read.
Tweets see all tweets
a daily run: https://sive.rs/run September 20, 2022 Doubt explanations : https://sive.rs/confab September 14, 2022 shortest date, and ketchup : https://sive.rs/ketchup September 13, 2022 Added some GREAT new books to my book notes page: https://sive.rs/book (click “newest”, up top) September 8, 2022 New release: full-length videobook for “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE”: https://sive.rs/ymap August 3, 2022 interesting that the population of China, India, and Africa are each about 1.4 billion