Derek Sivers
sive.rs/now
No belief is necessarily true. If it was absolutely true, we wouldn’t need to say “I believe”. We could just point at the proof.
Location:
Wellington, New Zealand
Professional title:
Author of thought explorations.
What do you do?
I find other perspectives.
Why?
Writing organizes my thoughts, and helps me explore further.
What should we read?
The Waste Books - by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Tweets from 1765-1799 by a 4’9” hunchback physicist, friends with Goethe and Kant, admired by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, etc. Such wonderful random thoughts, beautiful perspectives on thinking for yourself, observing nature, language, freedom, philosophy, religion, and more. Hundreds of initial insights, especially inspiring because they’re undeveloped.