"Pain's power relies on surprise. If you expect it, it's weaker. If you choose it, it's gone."
Derek Sivers (
@sivers is an author, entrepreneur, and TED speaker.
He founded CD Baby, once the largest seller of independent music online, with more than $100 million in sales for over 150,000 musicians.
After more than a year of saying no to every podcast, he said yes to this one.
The conversation covers raising a son, why he moves countries on purpose, the certainty slider, leading a team as an explorer,
and how AI can make you more independent from big tech.
Out now on Infinite Loops, with host
@jposhaughnessy.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:30 30 Hours a Week With His Son
4:41 From Manager to Consultant
9:57 Letting Kids Feel the Consequences
15:16 Why He Moves Countries on Purpose
22:31 Who We Become for Other People
28:47 Why Bangalore
32:35 Living Many Lives in One Lifetime
36:41 Using AI to Steelman the Other Side
42:24 A $1,000-a-Year Company for a China Visa
46:47 The Certainty Slider
55:49 Why Saying "I Don't Know" Builds Trust
58:18 Speaking Only When There Is Something to Say
1:00:21 Explorers vs. Straight-Line Leaders
1:07:22 Tech Independence and Punk Tech
1:11:12 How AI Can Make You More Independent
1:20:07 Science Is Punk
1:26:28 Cutting a Paragraph Down to One Line
1:31:25 The Vicious AI Critic
1:34:40 Restrictions Will Set You Free
1:38:07 Useful Not True and the Bridge of Nihilism