Yes my site is plain on purpose. It’s my minimalist desire for only what’s needed.
Me in 10 seconds
I’ve been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher.
I started CDBaby and HostBaby long ago. My short audio/book about it tells you everything I learned while starting, growing, and selling the business.
Monomaniac, introvert, slow thinker, and love finding a different point of view.
California native, I now live in Oxford, England.
Me in 10 minutes?
See my “about” page.
What am I doing now?
See my “now” page.
Contact me?
See why you should, though read my frequently asked questions, first.
Books
- Anything You Want (2011)
- 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur: my tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby
- Your Music and People (2019)
- a philosophy for musicians (and normal people) of getting your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, descriptive, focused, and connected
- Hell Yeah or No (2019)
- a collection of thoughts around re-defining yourself, changing focus, and saying yes to less
- How to Live (2020)
- radically different approaches to life, in succinct directives
Podcast
My podcast is an audio version of my blog. Each episode is just 1-3 minutes. Listen here on my site.
Subscribe at Apple, Spotify, Overcast, YouTube, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Google, or copy the master RSS to paste into your favorite player.
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My private email list
If you want the announcements and opportunities that I never post publicly, get on my private email list, here:
Projects see all projects
- Book Notes
- detailed notes from the last 250+ books I’ve read
- Now Now Now
- a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page
- 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.
- Anything You Want
- 7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”.
- Uncommon Sense
- Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
- Conference Presentations
- Talks from other conferences, all subjects.
Interviews
Through 2015, I got personal and poured my heart into 40 hours of interviews.
Each one has an MP3 you can download, or a transcript if you prefer to read.
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Tweets see all tweets
- January 20
- My #1 most-gifted book is “The Third Ear” by Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Forever changes how you think of sound. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805020071
- December 30
- Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes. : https://sivers.org/mny
- December 3
- I performed at Nara Dreamland with my circus for two weeks in 1992. Then it became this… https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/01/haunting-photos-capture-abandoned-nara-dreamland-theme-park-in-japan-7903779/
- November 17
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist (now on podcast) : https://sivers.org/sakamoto + https://sivers.org/podcast
- November 15
- Now on podcast : Sammy Cahn said thank you : https://sivers.org/sammy-cahn : https://sivers.org/podcast
- November 14
- Posted to podcast : “Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage” : https://sivers.org/hi || https://sivers.org/podcast