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Derek Sivers

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“David Hannemire Hansen. And so then Rails came out about eight months later. And at first look, I was just like, huh, this is a little confusing. I don't really get it. And so I posted to the Ruby mailing list. Can anybody tell me? I'd be happy to pay somebody for an hour of their time to show me how this works. So some guy named Toby said, I'll show you Rails for $100. I'll spend an hour with you. So I paid Toby $100 to show me Rails for an hour. And he showed me over the phone. We never met face to face. It was all just over the phone. I was living in LA. And Toby was great. He showed me how Rails works and got me really into it. I was like, all right, I'm in. And so my old company, CD Baby, we started converting everything over to Rails. I was like, this is great.”
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“It's worth it. Give him a hurdle. So, oh, Toby. I love the Ruby programming language. And so before there was Ruby on Rails, I learned Ruby in a cabin in Sweden that I was offline for two weeks, so I brought a programming book with me. I was like, well, I'm going to be offline for two weeks. I might as well learn something new. So there was this really unknown little programming language called Ruby. I was like, that sounds fun. So I grabbed this Ruby book, installed Ruby on my laptop, and went off to this cabin in Sweden in the winter for two weeks. I was offline and I learned Ruby for two weeks. I came back going, that was so much fun. I wish I could use this to make websites. And there was news that there was this guy named David in Denmark who was doing something with websites and Ruby. So I emailed him saying, hey, somebody said you're making like a web framework in Ruby. And he emailed back saying, not ready yet. That's all he said.”
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“Twice before sharing my email. Don't you dare get this to anyone at Timferris.com. That is his personal email back. Yeah.”
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“No, that's okay. Yeah, selling Shopify earlier was my most So, audience, there was this cute moment. So we're going to get to cute moment. I just want to say that.”
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“Handle some of this as well. Yeah, they're one of the same. So, you're really just using their SIMTI servers just to send the outcoming mail, but receiving it privately. So that's my balance.”
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“All incoming email comes directly into my server But for sending, I actually use a service called Mailgun that just handles the sending.”
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“Think so. It's the simplest, it's the only one in there that's not truly setting up your own server. Although I mean, that would, you know, obviously that's the next step. It's just do that first thing and just have a couple hours of something that feels uncomfortable and new to you. But voila, you have a server that's running anywhere in the world. And once you have a server, everything else is easier. But yeah, the baby steps is to just get your own domain name and switch your email to that and try to just move everything off of Gmail or just let your old Gmail be your junk account.”
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“I'd say the first baby step is to get your own domain name. Definitely. And then move your email off of Gmail and just go to some third party provider of email.”
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“All of this is expecting everybody to fail. So the conclusion is I think this is a great use of your time. It's liberating, it's empowering. And then when somebody tries to sell you a service, you'll know that you can do it yourself if you want to. And you might still choose to have them do it.”
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“Because everything's being sent to Tim at Tim.com. So you have your own domain name. You can just route it to a different mail server. Same thing with the servers I'm talking about. If one of these services in Germany or New Jersey suddenly went under, no big deal. You've got your clone, your remote clone. Your remote server is a clone thing.”
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“Because everything is done with your own domain name. So if mailbox.org ever sends, actually if they just disappeared one day, You'd go, you just log into your domain name router and just route it to another service.”
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“Everything I've recommended here was recommended with that in mind. You should expect that you will outlive most businesses. I think that to me is the biggest misconception that people have about Facebook or Apple or Google that it's likely you might outlive Google and Facebook. Those of us who are around in the first comment.”
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“It's dead easy to receive amail. It's a little harder to send email. You'd have to set up a few config files, but it's not that hard. I do it myself. It's a bit advanced, but it's possible, and I assume that that would come maybe as, you know, step eight after you've done other things.”
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“So I think it's crucial to extract yourself from the will take care of it for you thing. So the three things I'm going to recommend, the three different options in order, the simplest. Cutest little one I found is mailbox.org is in Germany. And for $1 a month, they do nothing but host your email. And I think maybe your calendars. But, you know, we've already talked about that. But mailbox.org, you point your domain name at them. They do your mail. They're cute. They're great. They're all privacy focused. If you want the luxury full premium suite of like the best email client on earth, you go to fastmail.com. Askedmail.com is amazing. It's $5 a month. But again, it's they're taking care of it for you. So, you know, the third option is coming. You can host your email yourself on your own server.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. Okay, I'll name one last one, and then we're done with this subject. The last thing I'm going to recommend is email. So at very least, get off Gmail and use your own domain name. It's so important to switch your email to your own domain name.”
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“Exactly What I was getting to. So start by doing it that way and then You need something that another service offers, you'll recognize that you need it because you'll know.”
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“So that's why I say, well, no, no, no, no. Hold on. My top recommendation is don't let people tell you that this is complicated. Because if you look at WordPress or similar services, and by the way, I'm just saying WordPress. I mean, it could be ghost, it could be any of these things, you get the impression that making a website is hard. But it's not, it's just a plain text file that you change it from.txt to.html and you add in a couple bracket tags And that's it And then you upload it and it works, and the world can see it. So I just constantly remind people how simple this can be, and I say that even if you just do it this way for the first month, please make your own static HTML web page even.”
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“And it does way more than what you need. So it's kind of like if you said, I need some scissors and somebody handed you to the contents of an entire hardware store. You're like, no, I really just need to cut this. So I think most people, what they want from a website is I have some thoughts. I want to put them in writing for the world to read. Or I have a couple photos. That's what most people want. But then I love WordPress, and I used it for years, but it does everything. And I think it intimidates people to the point of paralysis.”
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“Yeah, yeah. And sometimes even these in Git, but sometimes I'm not. Sometimes it's gone. It's rare, but every now and then. Okay, so. Website is a no brainer, the OpenBSD operating system comes with its own web server. So I highly recommend, no offense to don't install WordPress. We love you, Matt. I adore you, Matt, but I think everybody should learn how to do it themselves. It's not that hard to do an H1 tag, H2, P tag, UL, U-L-I, AHRF image source. You can learn it in an hour And voila, now you can make your own HTML website. And because I get this question about once a week by email, people saying, what do you recommend? I want to make my own site.”
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“Yeah, I just type R sync. Right before I shut down my computer, backs up my today's work to my remote server. And then about once a week, I back it up to the second server. Then about once a month, I back it up to the third server and I really like that delay because there have been times that I've deleted something in like a whole week later.”
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“Is nice to tune into people who care about that stuff deeply and they can act as a nice natural filter to let you know if somebody's being good or being bad. That's how I found, you know, when I recommended bookmyname.com for domains. It was like some superno that recommended that. They're like, oh, these guys are old school Unix. You want to go with these guys? Like, you know, they're not these new salesmen trying to, you know, raise venture capital for their domain selling. These are just old school nerds. It for the right reason. That's what I like to hear. These are my people. Okay, so I have three servers now set up in New Zealand, US, and Germany, and I like the delay between them. So I have one that I update every night, sometimes multiple times a day.”
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“Yeah. I'm passionate about it. It upsets me when people are bound to the cloud or just going to use everything in the company's hand. They're dependent on the server. It's about being dependent. It's about the self-reliance. People who are dependent on others. Like imagine if everybody in their own home was dependent on somebody else to make them food. They didn't know how to make their own food. You'd feel bad for them. Like, come on, it's not that hard. Here's a knife. Here's some bread. Some peanut butter. See? You could do it. That's how I feel with these things.”
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“If I accidentally delete a file, even if it's a week later, we'll get to. Actually, you know what? I'll talk about this right now. I have my server's cloned, so that's actually the next step I would recommend anyway. Once you've got this and it's working for extra security, go back and repeat that first step and set up another server with a different company in a different country and do it again to the SSH port thing. Then you can use RSync or sync thing not just to clone between your computer and your server, but that server and the other server.”
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“Continue. So it's completely free and open source, and it does that more like automatic style instead of manual synchronization.”
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“You don't need iCloud, you don't need Dropbox, you don't need Google Drive, you've got your own server so every computer has this dead simple little program built into it called RSync, R-S-Y-N-C. Well, Macs have it built in, Windows, I think you might need to install it, or maybe it's there with a new PowerShell. And all it does is synchronize the difference. So if you have 10,000 files and you've changed three of them today and your remote server has 10,000 files, but not the new three, you type RSync, and it'll just send the newest three that you've changed. That's it. So, RSYNC is built in, but you have to manually type RSync in the command and your server name, and it'll go. So that's what I do. But if you're a fan of Dropbox, there's a free replacement for Dropbox called sync thing-s-y-n-c-in-g.net. So it's totally free, open source.”
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“It's so important to know that my contacts aren't being sent to. Other people. And then you see it backed up yourself because there are some people that get locked out of their Gmail account or whatever, and then they're just screwed because all their contacts are in there. But you have them yourself. Okay. So next thing is file storage where photos, books, ebooks, movies, documents, everything else. They're just files. So the first thing you want to do is to export them out of the apps that are like the walled garden apps like Kindle and Apple's photos app and save it as regular files. EPUB, JPEG, MP3, MP4. just open standards. So you export it out, you save it there, and now you've just got regular files.”
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“Yes.org. It's absolutely free open source. It sets up what's known as a card dav and a calDav server on your server. This will be the new server that you sync your contacts and calendars to. So it's dead simple, blew my mind. You install Radical on your server. You just basically type one command and it says, okay, it's running. You say, okay. And then you go into your phone, and instead of telling Apple to manage your calendar and contacts, you just set it to your domain name. And suddenly it says, okay, synchronized. And now every new contact you add and every calendar entry is synchronized with your server, not add.”
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“Was cheering for me, but I didn't know what I was supposed to do. They told me to run. Okay, so now let's talk about some applications. Okay, so you have a server set up. Here's what you're going to do with it. Can set up, it's called radical. The website is radical.org. It's absolutely free. Open source.”
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“Yeah, okay. So, by the way, you know what's cute? My kid didn't know what baseball is. They played baseball last week at school and he said, Dad, what's his thing with the squares and setup in a... And he had a home run on his first try.”
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“Because that's how we all learned it first, right? It's often like just do this, you'll understand it later. No, just do it. And I think that's a fine way to learn if you trust the source, right? Trust me. So it's not as hard as it sounds.”
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“No, but somebody I'm going to write this up into a very simple you don't need to understand this yet, just do this. Eventually you understand it because that's how I learned it.”
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“I care about this so much that I'm going to set up a really dead simple thing that's basically just do this. Copy paste this. This is going to work. So email me.”
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“Once you've got your own server, it puts everything else into perspective. So that's really where I'm coming from when. Say, like, I don't do things in the cloud, it's because when companies come out and say, we can take care of this for you. Like you've already got your bread and peanut butter and jam in the kitchen, and somebody says, We can make a sandwich for you in your own home. You think I don't need your help”
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“And the best thing to start with, like you said, I'm not a guy that's got stockpiles of oatmeal and gold. But once you've got, I don't know why you picked oatmeal, but once you've got oatmeal.”
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“There's no affiliate program there. As a backup, I use NetIM.com. Both of these are French companies. And there's a third one in Portland, Oregon that I like called Porkbun.com. Yeah, all three of these are really good reputable places to get a domain name. I recommend them. No affiliate fees at all. I just like them. I use them. Okay. So now you've got a server”
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“Okay, so next thing you need a domain name. My recommended place to get a domain name is a wonderfully nerdy non-commercial site called bookmyname.com. B-O-O-K-M-Y-N-A-A-N-C-O-Y.”
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“Think it's what our phones are already doing behind the scenes with WhatsApp encrypted chats or FaceTime. Or even just our phones themselves. When you type in that code, when you first turn on your phone, I think our phones are already behind the scenes using public private key.”
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“Right, and that's why then you want to change the SSH server configuration files to disable passwords. So even if a billion script kitties were trying to hack your server to guess your password, passwords are just disabled.”
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“Then you just use whatever tool you want to upload the dot pub to your remote server. You put it into the correct place and authorized keys file. And voila, now it will, instead of asking you for your password, it just uses the private key and the public key matching to let you in.”
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“Yeah, it's really just a single command you type on the terminal. If you type sshygen space dash t space ed25519, it will ask you for an optional password, and it just creates the private key and the public key, same name but one has the.pub at the end.”
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“Then you go into your pf.conf settings, you edit your firewall to only allow port 22, which is the port that SSH uses to connect. Once you've done that, voila, now your server is super secure. Nobody can get in except you from your computer with a generated private key. Through SSH is the only way to connect to that server.”
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“Yes. In your code that can be exploited. The less code, the better. So install OpenBSD and follow the instructions to encrypt one of the disk partitions in there as you're installing it. Then you're going to use SSH, which stands for secure shell to log into it. Then on your home computer, use that terminal to generate a private SSH key. You do SSH-Keygen. The type you want is ED25519. And then that's going to generate two keys, a private key and a public key. You upload the public key to your server. And then after you do that, edit your SSH configuration file to disable password logins. So now the only way to log into your server is with your private public key that you just generated, right? Very similar to the crypto public-private.”
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“And the guy at the data center said, Oh, yeah, that's been happening a lot lately. He said, You might want to switch to BSD. It's a lot more secure. So OpenBSD is designed from the ground up by super security freaks. And part of why it's so secure is it so simple. It's a very, very simple operating system that doesn't do everything under the sun. It does this that I'm describing and it does it really well. And as secure as hell”
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“No, no, no. Berkeley software distribution. Oh, there we go. A quick minute. I was born in Berkeley, California, and kind of like more people named Dennis go into dentistry because there's an affiliation of names. Freakonomics pointed that out. I always wonder if my affinity with the BSD operating systems is because I was born in Berkeley. Oh, look at that. Anyway, but the reason I got turned on to OpenBSD is because I used to have Linux server as a public server and it was hacked.”
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“Here's my quick how-to, and I'm going to tell you a few things here that aren't complete instructions, but they're enough for you to search the web. So I'll tell you what to do, and you can search the web for exactly how. The first thing you're going to need to do is to use the terminal. So the command line. In the Mac it's built in, you go into your utilities folder, it's called terminal. On Windows, it's called PowerShell. And anybody using Linux, you know what it is. So the operating system I'm going to recommend, the one I use, is called OpenBSD. And we touched on this on the street the other night. The reason I use OpenBSD”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just a computer that's always online. That's it. Publicly accessible, always online. Doesn't even necessarily need to be public. We'll get to that because I think for setting up your server, there are three options. Either the $5 a month, vulture.com, cloud compute. Number two, search the web for cheap, dedicated server. So now a dedicated server is an actual piece of hardware that is only yours, not shared with anybody else. So if you want more privacy, just spend a little extra money and get a dedicated server, which means, yeah, this physical hardware, you're the only person that has. They have physical access to it, but you have the only root password. And it's going to be an encrypted hard drive. We'll get to that. The third option is go to any used marketplace and find an old used Lenovo ThinkPad. Ideally from the T400 series, you can get these for under $200 now, and they're great, and they run any old operating system, and you would just set this up in your closet and keep the master version of your server in your closet.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So they have something called cloud compute for $5 a month, where basically that's setting up a private slice that's just yours, but on a shared computer.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, first, let me just say the first thing you need is to get your own server, which is as simple as $5 a month. If you go to, there's a company I recommend called Vulture.com, but it's spelled V-U-L-T-R.com”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Got him. Keep all my contacts in the clown. So everything I'm going to describe here takes just a few hours to set up. This isn't a major, major thing. It's not that hard. Listeners. Yours are used to being suggested to learn how to do something.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're in Google Photos. She said, No, they're not. And he looked it up. He's like, Oh my God. What do you mean they're gone? And he emailed customer service and they said, well, no, you chose to merge your accounts and we warned you that they're gone. He said, well, could you please recover them? They said, no, they're gone. This poor guy has no photos of his kid from age zero to 10. Because he trusted the clown. I mean, sorry, cloud.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT