Articles:

• Possible futures
• I sound strange because I’m singing the counter-melody
• How to stop being rich and happy
• How to be useful to others
• How to thrive in an unknowable future
• What to do when you get successful
• How to get rich
• How to like people
• Do this. Directives - part 1
• Don’t start a business until people are asking you to
• Interviews at sivers.org/i
• Why I don’t promote
• Happy, Smart, and Useful
• Assume men and women are the same
• A warning to anyone receiving advice
• Over-compensate to compensate
• How to take a compliment
• Why I don’t want stuff
• Should you learn programming? Yes.
• How to learn JavaScript
• Switch strategies
• nownownow.com
• The /now page movement
• Relax for the same result
• Saying no to everything else
• “Just tell me what to do”: compressing knowledge into directives
• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Getting out of a bad place
• How to change or build your career
• Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset
• I love being wrong
• The philosophy of great customer service
• Loving what I used to hate
• The Meaning of Life
• Change careers like Tarzan
• What if you didn't need money or attention?
• How will this game end?
• Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.
• Understanding Vietnam
• Understanding Singapore
• Understanding Indonesia
• Understanding Japan
• Same word. Different places? Different meanings.
• Wood Egg 2014 books are on sale now
• Jac Holzman
• Why am I here?
• Why my code and ideas are public
• OK, Milt Olin, I’ll start writing again
• Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan
• Wood Egg (my new company)
• Some will always say you're wrong
• No rules in this game
• Seeking inspiration?
• The Great Movies
• Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage
• It's all who you know?
• Focus, entertain, or both?
• Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software
• Everything is my fault
• You don't have to be local
• Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone.
• Smart people don't think others are stupid
• Advice on moving to Los Angeles
• Friends from memory
• The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
• 232 sand dollars
• Procrastination Hack : change and to or
• Anything You Want (my first book)
• Projecting meaning
• Fish don't know they're in water
• Trying to pursue many different directions at once?
• I moved to Singapore
• Any questions?
• There's no place like home
• Delegate or die: the self-employed trap.
• Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
• Why wreck a blank canvas?
• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
• KarmaList wishlist?
• Valuable to others, or only you?
• Quit quirks when working with others
• My loss
• I assume I'm below average
• How to get hired
• How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
• After 15 years of practice...
• How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist
• Naïve Quitting
• Thursday = Thor's day
• A real person, a lot like you
• Flip the stick
• Successful SxSW: the Tao of the Conference
• The Night I Met Einstein - by Jerome Weidman
• First Follower idea is all yours
• First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy
• Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake
• There are always more than two options
• Big catalog = infinite specialty shops
• Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy
• Musician feedback on Ignore Everybody
• Papa Bill: I don't need to worry about you.
• Put buskers online
• "Online" marketing = "Color" TV
• Why I gave away my company to charity
• There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
• Japanese Addresses: the opposite is also true
• Present one idea at a time and let others build upon it
• Linux Compose Key
• The challenge: Don't speak in future tense
• Trust but verify
• Let pedestrians define the walkways
• Fela Kuti
• Confidence required
• If you think you haven't found your passion...
• Doesn't feel like work (or I've forgotten)
• Learning the theme, not the example.
• How I knew I was done with my company
• You should feel pain when unclear
• How do you grade yourself?
• Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one.
• What's the difference between like, love, and in-love?
• Highest book recommendation: Ignore Everybody
• And if only 1% of those people...
• Does your company really want to hang out with me?
• Biking
• Venue for audience to mix their own audio
• Emphasize meaning over price = More paid sales
• Is there such a thing as too much freedom?
• Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don't fight it.
• Safety
• Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?
• ... desperate? Part 2
• Does it help to be desperate?
• climbing ladders
• Unlearning
• My heroes
• Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
• How to send personalized emails
• Sprezzatura
• What do you hate not doing?
• Idea: Musician's own website as definitive source of all info
• How I use Twitter
• No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no.
• Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
• A computer that would require kids to be creative to use it
• TED Conferences
• I miss the mob
• Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do
• Barking
• The power of no reward
• The mirror: It’s about you, not them.
• Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
• Semi-experts: profit by saving us time
• Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded
• Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi
• Early drafts of great work are encouraging
• Fundamental reading on marketing
• Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable.
• Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.
• Why do we get some songs stuck in our head?
• Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
• Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them
• Grow your own fresh air
• That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
• Show success before asking for help
• Why you need your own company
• MusicThoughts update : inspiring quotes for music-makers
• Does quantity + learning = quality?
• How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
• Are you future-focused or present-focused? The marshmallow experiment.
• You have enough.
• Some people like to pay. Let them.
• Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote.
• What do musicians and entrepreneurs have in common?
• What super-power do you want?
• Talent increases. Resourcefulness decreases. Are you sustainable?
• My $3.3M mistake
• Have you looked under the chickens?
• Not what it used to be!
• Dreams are here. Details have changed.
• Backwards
• Character predicts your future
• Sammy Cahn said thank you
• Goals shape the present, not the future.
• Aimee Mullins
• Accelerate change
• My favorite fable (塞翁失马)
• What do you do for feedback on a new song you're writing?
• Me, we.
• Ideas to Reality
• A free, open song contest idea
• MusicThoughts.com
• Advice for a 19-year-old guitarist who wants to be a session musician.
• Complainers
• Don't... if you think it's going to make you happy
• Getting past it
• Nobody's going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you?
• Happiness is letting someone make you the villain
• Attending a music biz conference? Here's the REAL way to do it....
• Mystery : Are people asking themselves questions about you?
• Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
• Double-speed! Half-speed! Up an octave! Down an octave!
• Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?
• Song lyric inspiration from Jenny Holzer's Truisms
• Nobody knows the future - and it doesn't matter!
• The Grand Pursuit
• Uncomparable: anchor a new mama
• The list of books I've read in the past year
• Should I put my music on LOTS of websites, or just a few?
• Is your album a starting line or a finish line?
• Ebert is reviewing again!
• Mastering entrepreneurship?
• Small actions changing self-identity
• Iceland
• 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
• Inspiration is a good start...
• Reversible business models
• Abraham Maslow's 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
• Bye-Bye, Baby!
• Ah, to own nothing!
• Songwriters / Lyricists / Composers (who don't perform)
• Who to ask for recommendations
• Action-Reaction
• Heartwarming compliments about my e-book
• A Musician's Advice About the College Market
• Trip diary from Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong
• Across the Universe
• Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn
• I'm a stereotypical entrepreneur
• Selling music by solving a specific need
• Sakurajima
• ... until I know how to do it, then I stop
• How was India?
• Avoid advance promotion. Be buyable first.
• Rule-breaking songs?
• two three four ONE, two three four ONE
• Aim for the edges.
• Moving to a new country
• Some things I've learned this year that turned my world upside-down and I'm still trying to wrap my head around
• Lyric inspiration : listening in to others' loves, hates, wishes, feelings
• Restrictions will set you free
• Get specific!
• eliminating the time between thinking something and doing it
• If I had a record label, would you be signed to it?
• Circle of influence - Circle of concern
• Piracy is not the problem
• 5 tips for musicians
• What should I do when someone says, “Let me know what you think!” of their music?
• It's great to be a beginner again
• Never have a limit on your income
• Whatever scares you or excites you, go do it
• Happy 10th Birthday to CD Baby - and an announcement
• Aiming to please big clients versus little clients
• The public you is not you
• 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
• Have someone work the inside of the industry
• Why words matter more than ever
• Read about new music. Use the tricks that worked on you.
• Blah blah blah... What NOT to say
• Constantly ask, What do they really want?
• Well-Rounded Doesn't Cut
• Was 10%, now 90%
• Leave 'em wanting more
• Touch as many of their senses as you can
• Imagine a play with 1000 actors on stage
• This is only a test. See what happens.
• Test. Improve. Perfect. Announce.
• If you target sharp enough, you will own your niche
• Tell people why they should care
• Someone you know
• Small gifts go a long way
• A short description - 10 seconds or less
• If you don't say what you sound like, you won't make any fans
• Reach them like you would want to be reached
• Shining example: Rayko
• Assume the basic sale, and go for quantity
• Proudly exclude some people
• Bad Targeting Example: progressive rocker targeting teenybopper
• Photos of your audience on your website
• Persistence is Polite
• Meet three new people every week
• Stay In Over Your Head
• Be a novice marketer, not an expert
• Or you can not talk at all
• Think like a person or poet, not a musician
• Have fun - do NOT be corporate
• Never use corporate-speak
• The Most Expensive Vodka
• Be a friend, not a mosquito
• More thoughts about people
• Keep in touch
• Basic online skills you must know
• Your Interactive Website
• Make your success a we or us. Include everyone.
• Always think how you can help someone
• Hillbilly Flamenco
• Life is like High School
• A good plan wins no matter what happens
• Get personal
• Go where the filters are
• Put your fans to work
• Be an extreme version of yourself
• Extreme results = extreme actions
• If this is draining your energy, please stop!
• They know nothing about you. Don't assume anything.
• DIY = Decide It Yourself
• Promo bits, ready to copy
• How to describe your music
• Database tips
• Get used to the idea of database and quantity
• Business is Creative
• Even conservative legends were extreme
• Compass in Your Gut
• Stay in close touch with hundreds of people
• Captain T
• Call the destination, and ask for directions
• Don’t be afraid to ask for favors