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”
https://pca.st/episode/6281574f-d372-4e67-97c0-4370877b6b34 (26.04.2023)
sivers.com/ti
https://www.allbirds.com/collections/mens
Minimalism
Michael Brown, London
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier https://amzn.eu/d/3rnqmgm
Throw out the bad pen
Self respect
Cake panic attack
Finding addiction
The power of imitation
Applied labels for
Whatever you are is now
Labels expire
What if your customers are jerks
DON’T use the cloud
Poor incapable Tim
Merge Gmail accounts – all gone
Cloud + Clown
NAS"
Terminal
Open BSD
Secure as hell
A lot of Klingon
https://sive.rs/ti
OPEN FORMATS
Old school nerds doing it for the right reason
Daily, weekly, monthly
Extract yourself
mailbox.org
You might outlive Google and Facebook
Remote Clon
Shopify
fuckoff@timferriss.com
Ruby Programming Language
„Perfect" House
The paradox of choice
Maximizers vs. Satigicers
Optimize for one or two thinas - the rest is good enough
FUN vs. BEST
Good enough = superpower
Open loops ... unresolved decisions
„Released" (book, album)
Silversism
„It's for them" (audience)
Beliefs are placebos
01:18 1
The cat, the alien and an octopus
Split Brain Patients
Richard Branson
The worlds norms (don't accept)
Central Park Oslo
Authority vs. Freedom
Don't disappoint yourself
Right and wrong vs. Geography
Sam Harris – moral landscape (TED Talk)
Narrow the choices
Government laws va. Religious laws
This book is trash (4 hour work week)
The problem with „isms“
Simplified reality – reductionism
More labels = more stupid
Ancient Crap (stoicism)
Me being weird
Incepted by Dale Carnegie
„How to Stop Worrying and Start Living“
Diary = what happened + what I’m thinking
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Fake it before you make it
Burning the bridges
The best option is the option that gives you the most options (Kevin Kelly)
NO beliefs are true
You don’t HAVE to do ANYTHING vs. Consequences
Mentors – summarize the problem + predict the answer + address that in advance
„I haven’t talked to my mentors in years.“
What would Abraham Lincoln say?
DIY
Seth Godin, Björk & Co – a fictional person could be your mentor
Matt Mullenweg … very, very calm
Writing exercises – sit down with your older self
Tim, Seth, Derek, Matt – the musts, the shoulders, the must haves
(Scotch Re-Fill)
The Games we play …
Trying to be successful + strange
Stardew Valley … the definition of addiction
(Don’t) stay in the game too long
„How to get rich“
Poetry and trees
Unemotional Derek – not in a bad way
Personal success = through the eyes of others?
You need to change now
Kurt Kobian
Full time dad in New Zealand
Passing words
The pain of too much stuff
Josh Waitzkin
GOOD ENOUGH
Helvetica Doku
(Don’t) design for the average
What would you tell your younger self
Women like sex 👍
Life = highlight reel
One question asked, one answer expected
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle – Erinnerungen von Werner Herzog
https://www.audible.de/pd/Jeder-fuer-sich-und-Gott-gegen-alle-Hoerbuch/B0BBSRFMCL (01.04.2023)