Derek Sivers
Author; founder of CD Baby
Derek Sivers is the founder of CD Baby and the author of several books.
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Recommended Books
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How to Live
Here Comes Everybody
Antifragile
Brain Rules

How to Read a Book

Au Contraire!
Deep Work
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

Ego Is the Enemy
Books by Derek Sivers
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“Mindblowing anthropology. Great argument that the reasons that religions worship cows or hate pigs, that tribes wage wars, or Europe's 200 years of witch hunts, are all very practical economic reasons usually unknown to the participants or washed out of history. But they're revealed here in zoomedout hindsight. My notes here can't describe it. You have to read the whole book. Riveting.”
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