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Derek Sivers

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“Can't drive automatic. So I don't know if you've heard the same stories I have about how many people have lost their Google accounts. There was a guy I know who's a very savvy tech entrepreneur in Singapore who because he was so tech savvy, he put all of his kids' photos in the cloud since the day his kid was born. He put everything under Google Photos. For 10 years, his kid was 10 years old, the day that he started a new company and said, I'm going to do the Google Apps for Business. And it asked him a quick question, would you like to merge this with your existing Gmail account? He said, yes. He merged it. And the next day his wife was like, honey, where are all the photos of our kid?”
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
“There's an incentive. This is the tech equivalent of that, that I wish that history had gone such a way that we all had our own little private server at home, but instead the cloud made a better sales pitch, saying, no, no, no, give us all your stuff. We'll take care of it forever. So my idea is if you spend a few hours to learn how to do it yourself, you'll just have tech independence. What that means is self-reliance. It gives you better security, better privacy, better freedom, better flexibility, and total control. And I think it's a great use of your time to spend a few hours learning to do this, kind of like somebody learning to drive manual transmission, right? You don't need to do it, but this is a good life skill to have. Especially imagine if we were in a world that had more, it was 50 years ago.”
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
“Now don't worry your little head about that. Let us take care of it. We'll keep all of your data. See, isn't that easier now? There, we've got your data. And it actually reminded me of something I think you said in four hour body about yoga studios, that no, it's not the best thing for your health. It's a better profitable pitch for them to sell you a yoga studio instead of deadlift.”
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
“Hold court. So audience, I prepared. I took notes because Although I love Tim's podcast, I love it most when people come and give us like an intense data dump. Know this, know that. I prepared a couple hours and here you go. So I'm going to unapologetically read from my notes to give you the best bang per buck of your time listening. So tech independence is all about the fact that I think the main sales pitch of the 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
“Because I'm slow like that. You'll ask me something like that. And in the moment, we're walking down Courtney Plates, I'll give some half ass answer. And then later that night, I'm like, ooh, I mean.”
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“And set up their own website. I like these people. I like people that have personal websites that aren't doing it for money.”
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
“And this is the kind of thing I care about so deeply that I would do it even if it didn't pay. I would do it as volunteer work. And I really like people that have personal websites. They're my kind of people that enjoy technology for its own sake, that took what do you call that, oomphopower. No, no, no. Where somebody takes initiative took the initiative?”
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
“Stop lecturing my past self. So right now an idea I'm having is 100 year hosting, legacy personal websites, so that setting up a trust so that your personal website will last on for 100 years or 50 years after you die.”
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“Because it's asking yourself, what would you do even if it didn't pay? I'll just pick one example, and don't hold me to this world if I don't end up doing this idea. Do you know that's like seven years ago, I happened to mention that that week we talked, I was enjoying learning the history of hip hop. And for six years, people keep telling me, like, so history of, I was like, it was that week. Come on. So, all right, right now.”
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
“The rate we're going. I don't know how that's going to work. Pause. So yeah, I think that if you set up your business to serve the people that you love being around. Even if it makes less money, you're going to be much happier. And so that's where I'm at right now. Like, right now, I'm not an entrepreneur, but I'm starting to get that itch. I'm starting to feel like doing something. And if I do, it'll just be to be around the people that I already love.”
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
“Think of the kind of customers that would come into your all-night vaping store. Are these the people you want to serve? And would you be happy even if you made a million dollars doing that? I think you'd feel pretty mixed about it.”
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
“You want to love your customers and love serving them because ultimately, even if it's the money, what you really, really want is the emotional fulfillment, right? Yeah, totally. So you might get lucky by strategically choosing an industry or a market that's on its way up and you might get really lucky and become a billionaire doing something. But what if your customers are jerks? Would you be happy getting rich running an all-night vaping store?”
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, in that moment, I went, oh my God, that's right. In my heart, I'm actually more of an author. And programming is fun. I love programming. I love what it empowers, and I think we're going to talk about that later. And I'm not an entrepreneur anymore. So in that moment, I was like, that's it. I'm really an author now, aren't I? Wow, that feels weird to me. I never thought of myself as an author, but I think this is the reason I call it a people compass is it's related to when you're not sure what business to start. A lot of people are looking at the many different options right now. The way I think about it is asking yourself, what kind of people do I like being around? Because these are the people you're going to be serving. You have to like them.”
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
“But then I noticed that all of my heroes were authors. These were the people I looked up to the most, and that helped me realize my values, like it helped reveal my values. So ultimately, like, we want to be our ideal selves. And I think that your heroes are your idealized self. That's why we idolize certain people's. We want to be like them. So that kind of reveals what your values are.”
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 for me, this was like as I was not sure what direction I wanted to go, I am an entrepreneur and I'm a programmer and I'm an author. I actually thought about it in that order. Maybe programmer first entrepreneur and then writing seemed to be something I was doing is just like a waste product, a metabolite of your other focus. It was like, and as I'm doing my thing, if I learn some lessons there, I just put them into writing”
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
“Looking to your heroes, I call it my people compass. If you're not sure which way to go, you can ask yourself well who do I admire? Who do I like?”
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
“Or if you don't want it to expire, well, then you need to do something about it and go actively be a good friend, not just keep calling yourself a good friend or go actively be an entrepreneur if you want to keep calling yourself that.”
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
“Have to keep running that title or it expires, right? Same thing with being a good friend, same thing with any labels that we call ourselves. You can't just keep using that forever. You have to keep it up where it expires. So if you realize that your previous identity is expiring, you have the choice then of either admitting I was an entrepreneur, I was a musician.”
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
“You're welcome. For years, I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized, wait a second, this has expired. Somebody who is an athlete in high school can't keep calling himself an athlete forever.”
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
“And they loaded this sandwich full of olives, and I looked at it like horrified. He ate it and loved it. He goes, I like olives now. It's like, yes, I love that switching between identities. And so I used to call myself an entrepreneur. And other people would call me an entrepreneur. And then I did my first book that was about that. So I got categorized as an entrepreneur.”
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
“And he picked this up from me, right? So he's like, I hate olives too, but he was just imitating me. And then we went to Subway one day. I was so proud of him. He walked up to the counter and he said, I would like olives. And they said, do you want anything else? He said, ham, just ham and olives.”
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
“There's a tiny idea around the identity, which is to just admit that whatever you are is now. Whatever your preference is now. So, like when my kid says, I hate tomatoes, I say today. And he goes, Oh, right. I hate tomatoes today because it's leaving open the possibility that you might change your mind tomorrow. And he did. I hate olives. I hate, hate, hate olives so badly.”
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
“In the forest and whatnot, that it's hard to remember that we need to close tangents today. Yeah, that's true. Usually we open a tangent, we close it two days later”
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
“By the way, audience, the hardest thing about hitting record on this is that Tim and I have these like crazy all over the place conversations.”
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
“Millionaire some people in the past few years have become millionaires, which is something that they held in a different category. And thought I'd never be that. And suddenly there, you have to admit, I'm a multimillionaire now. It's a category. So I realized that we can, even those categories can be involuntary, that you can suddenly be a rescuer, even if you never intended to be one, just through the power of imitation. So you can deliberately step into these roles by imitating others”
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
“Addicted to something that seemed harmless at first, and they have to admit, oh my God, I'm an addict. But then I realized that someday these categories might be me or anybody else if you're categorizing people, this might be you. But then the thing that happened on the second day where there's another category that we don't think we could be, which is like hero, rescuer. Leader, athlete.”
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
“But I thought, wow, like a lot of these things are involuntary. It's not like somebody chooses to be depressed. And I realized I had been unfairly categorizing people the same way I had unfairly categorized panic attack people, because now I am one, right? I found that. Addiction. Somebody who said they would never be an addict, then they find themselves.”
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 then I have no respect for that kind of silly panic. But I had just panicked, and it was involuntary. It's like that night, I had this moment of just like, wow, what does that mean? Am I a panic attack person now? Have I changed categories from a not panic attack person to a panic attack person? I just kind of fell asleep with no answers to that. So then, yeah, then the next day had this thing happen with a German couple. And I feel like that experience taught me two kinds of empathy that we categorize people. Like I just said, the type of person who has a panic attack. And we think of a category of person that say like depressed, fat, homeless, divorced, bankrupt. And you think, I would never be those things. I'm not that kind of person.”
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
“I've accidentally missed one step in the storytelling of this, that I should have included is the night in between those two days I went home that night thinking what the fuck? I think I just had a panic attack. I'm not one of those people. Like I have no respect for people who have panic attacks because usually panic attacks to me I think of like people who are just like, oh no, like my cake is late. I'm gonna die and they freak out over shallow little things and it seems to me like they have no perspective on life”
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
“And she gets up to the surface and she rips her mask off just like I did. She's like, I don't like this. I don't like it. No, this is not good. I hate this. I feel bad. Now I want to go. And I said, I just imitated the dive instructor. Exactly. I said, well, hold on a second. I said, look around. I said, it's a really nice day. I said, isn't this great? I said, you see those mountains over there? I said, just relax a second. I said, I'm here with you. It's okay. And so she calmed down, and I saw her go do the same thing I did and calmed down. And then her boyfriend showed up. Where the hell is the...”
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
“That's a deep dive. The bottom of where you're supposed to go as a beginner. And at the bottom, I see the German girl by herself. Partner's not there. And I do the dive manners we're taught where I gave her the okay symbol. And she gave the not OK symbol. And I was like, wait, am I remembering? And I was like, okay? And again, she goes, not okay. And I see her eyes are looking crazy. And I went, oh shit, I've been trained for this. Oh my God, I can do this. Okay, held on to her BCD, held on to mine, inflated hers a bit, asked if she needed my mouthpiece.”
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“It's different. And so Get underwater, but this time I'm elated. I'm underwater just where I wanted to be in that crystal clear fissure there in Thingville. I was like, wow. And at 20 meters down,”
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“So I just relaxed for a second. You know, you inflate your BCD, so you're just buoyant and you float. I All right, yeah. What was I scared of? I went, okay, I'm ready. And so we go back down, and I completed it, and it was great. It was no problem. I love being underwater. It's wonderful. So that was the completion of my training. The next day was my first official dive, so we're there with a dozen other people that have flown to Iceland from around the world, including this couple from Germany, that were bragging about how many dives they've done. We've done over 100 dives. So they were acting like know-it-alls, but then they're like, oh, dry suit. We've never done dry suit before. And so they're getting into dry suit again.”
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
“I was just like, I tore off my mask. And I was just like, I said, I don't want to go. You guys go ahead. I'm going to wait on the side there. You go ahead. I'll just wait. And he was so sweet. He was so cool. He looked at me and just stopped for a second and he said. Hold on a second, he said. It's a really nice day today. He said, Look around. Look at those mountains. Then he goes, See, it's a nice day today. He said, Yeah, look at what a beautiful area we're in right now. And then he said, you know, if you were to leave now, he said, I know you're flying back in seven days. If you were to leave now you wouldn't be able to complete the training, and you wouldn't get your certification. I know you don't want that. He said, just relax for a second, it's all right.”
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
“And so the swimming pool is great, and I love the fact that it's calm, that you don't need to panic about holding your breath, it's just slow and meditative. But then the first time we went into the cold ocean, and to be clear, I had to wear one of those giant dry suits that you like, you're like a spaceman with four layers of rubber and stuff over the rubber. So it's very claustrophobic. And then I get into the water and it gets down to about 20 meters. And I'm just like, oh God, do I hate this? I want to go. I just want to go back at home. I want to be on the internet. I want to be emailing my friend. I want to talk to my friend. I just want to, you know, I got to get out of here. So I rapped on his tank and I went up to the top.”
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
“I was in Iceland, and I never had any intention to go scuba diving, but I was at that place in a Thingviller Park if you've ever been there where the two continental plates meet the American continental plate meets the Eurasian continental plate, and there's this deep fissure in the ground, but it's crystal clear water. So you can see all the way down. I was like, ooh, I want to go in there. It just looks like avian spring water, you know, poured over rocks with nothing clouding the water. So I was in Iceland for a month, so I went to take scuba diving lessons. And the instructor was great. So it's dive.is. At the time, it was just him in his basement, and it was me and one other guy learning scuba diving. So we did the practice in the swimming pool and we did all the theoretical stuff. You learned a scuba? Yeah. Okay.”
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
“Even something as simple as a pen when I've done that, I went, I'm better than this. I'm not going to make this pen is not going to rule over me any longer.”
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
“Only two. Again, it's this idea of enough. It's like I wear junk, basically home pajamas. I think of one of those pajamas, the big baggy t-shirt that somebody handed you to a conference. And you would never wear that outside the house. But Michael Brown with an E in London, when I lived in London right before COVID hit, I thought, you know, I'm living here by Savile in London. I'm about to leave England forever. I'm going to get a custom-made suit. So I looked at what was his name? Sartorial Talks. It's an interesting YouTube channel about somebody diving deep into like the craft of fine clothing. Tailoring. Yeah, tailoring. And so he recommended this guy Michael Brown in London. So, yeah, I went to Michael Brown and he said, what would you like? I said, you're the expert. You know, just dress me.”
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
“This is my only pair of pants. And yeah, so these three glasses, I don't even think about it because I just think about having what's enough Right, so there's only me and my kid here. And so you come over and you say, okay, let's make some scotch eat. And you're like, Do you have any? I was like, no, that's all I got. I just have these glasses. They work, and this is enough. And these little bamboo cups I got for my kids so that he wouldn't break them off.”
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