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About | Derek Sivers

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I always write for my audience, not for myself, so this feels indulgent. When I think of expressing this kind of “about me” stuff in an article, I stop myself because it’s not directly useful to you. So this is just one big page where I can write all about myself, without feeling the need for it to be useful. And some day this site will be all that’s left of me, so I might as well write my own mini autobiography. More than anything, I want to make lots of stuff. I want to make articles, books, websites, music, companies, systems, apps, and especially new ideas. This shapes most of my life decisions. Saying no to almost everything, so I can have lots of time for making. At the age of 14, I decided I wanted to be a successful musician. Knowing it’s something that millions want, but only one-in-a-million achieve, I knew I’d have to be fiercely focused, persistent, savvy, and work like an Olympic athlete in training. In other words, not casual. I was single-focused obsessed with being a su

Time line for context: 1969: born in Berkeley, California 1971: moved to Chicago 1973: moved to Menlo Park, California 1975: moved to Abingdon, England 1976: moved to Hinsdale, Illinois 1977: started playing piano, viola, and clarinet 1979: got a TRS-80 computer and dove deep into programming in BASIC 1983: started playing guitar, decided I wanted to be a successful musician 1987: moved to Boston for Berklee College of Music 1988: joined a circus, as ringleader/MC musician 1990: graduated college, moved to New York City, got a job at Warner/Chappell Music 1992: quit my job, and toured Japan as

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