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The Wisdom Series
Quotes I've researched and compiled from my favorite musicians and humans.

The Wisdom of Derek Sivers
A collection of Derek Sivers' best thinking, in his own words.

The Wisdom of Quincy Jones
A collection of Quincy Jones' best thinking, in his own words.
Kids Books

Boat Anchors

Don't Wait To Be Nice

Luck

Never Think Twice

You Are Extraordinary
Books I've read
- Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
- The Giver — Lois Lowry
- Atomic Habits — James Clear
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
- Anything You Want — Derek Sivers
- Hell Yeah or No — Derek Sivers
- Your Music and People — Derek Sivers
- Useful Not True — Derek Sivers
- This Is Marketing — Seth Godin
- Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
- Writing That Works — Kenneth Roman & Joel Raphaelson
- Ogilvy on Advertising — David Ogilvy
- Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
- Trust Me, I'm Lying — Ryan Holiday
- The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown
- Angels & Demons — Dan Brown
- Purple Cow — Seth Godin
- Reboot — Jerry Colonna
- Good to Great — Jim Collins
- Small Giants — Bo Burlingham
- The 80/20 Principle — Richard Koch
- You Can Negotiate Anything — Herb Cohen
- The Way Forward — Yung Pueblo
- Maximize Your Potential (99U) — Jocelyn K. Glei
- Turning the Flywheel — Jim Collins
- Clarity & Connection — Yung Pueblo
- Inward — Yung Pueblo
- On Songwriting — Aaron Espe
- Profit First — Mike Michalowicz
- The Practice — Seth Godin
- $100M Offers — Alex Hormozi
- Cashvertising — Drew Eric Whitman
- Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
- The Giving Tree — Shel Silverstein
- Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead — Barry Barnes
- Building a StoryBrand — Donald Miller
- Where the Sidewalk Ends — Shel Silverstein
- Falling Up — Shel Silverstein
- A Light in the Attic — Shel Silverstein
- The Missing Piece — Shel Silverstein
- Petty: The Biography — Warren Zanes
- Life — Keith Richards
- Conversations with Tom Petty — Paul Zollo
- The Storyteller — Dave Grohl
- Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
- The Let Them Theory — Mel Robbins
- Invent and Wander — Jeff Bezos & Walter Isaacson
- Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen
- Essentialism — Greg McKeown
- Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger
- The Daily Dad — Ryan Holiday
- Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
- Don't Believe Everything You Think — Joseph Nguyen
- Smart Brevity — Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz
- Apple in China — Patrick McGee
- The Carbon Almanac — Seth Godin
- My Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
- The Story of B — Daniel Quinn
- How to Live — Derek Sivers
- The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
- On Writing — Stephen King
- Journals — Kurt Cobain
- Scar Tissue — Anthony Kiedis
- Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith — Aerosmith & Stephen Davis
- Chronicles: Volume One — Bob Dylan
- The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution — Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling
- Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond — Mark Blake
- The Greatest American Speeches — Quercus
- Lyrics 1964–2011 — Paul Simon
- The Book of Positive Quotations — John Cook
- Einstein's Universe — Nigel Calder
- Rare Air — Michael Jordan
- 1964: Eyes of the Storm — Paul McCartney
- Beyond Words — John Prine
- The American Songbag — Carl Sandburg
- Who Killed Kurt Cobain? — Ian Halperin & Max Wallace
- First, Break All the Rules — Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — Tom Wolfe
- Don't Think of an Elephant! — George Lakoff
- Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton
- Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus — Orson Scott Card
- The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin
- I Ching
- Marketing Outrageously — Jon Spoelstra
- Tales of Adam — Daniel Quinn
- Jailbird — Kurt Vonnegut
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
- Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
- Making Money with Baseball Cards
- The Elements of Taoism — Martin Palmer
- The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Godsplice — Gordon Kerr
- The Egg — Andy Weir
- So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star — Jacob Slichter
- Born Standing Up — Steve Martin
- Player Piano — Kurt Vonnegut
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Just Kids — Patti Smith
- Fast Food Nation — Eric Schlosser
- Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer — Peter Turchi
- Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
- A Promised Land — Barack Obama
- Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) — Jeff Tweedy
- Infinity Blues — Ryan Adams
- The Golden Ratio — Mario Livio
- Do Fish Drink Water? — Bill McLain
- The Sirens of Titan — Kurt Vonnegut
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded — Thomas L. Friedman
- The Mansion on the Hill — Fred Goodman
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas — Tom Robbins
- The Holy — Daniel Quinn
- Going Infinite — Michael Lewis
