Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Maintainer spotlight: Siân Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Sean Griffin.
Indie Thinkers
A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.
Geoffrey Litt
Here’s a very incomplete list of people whose work I’ve found inspirational. If your taste is similar to mine, maybe you’ll get some inspiration from their work too.
Welcome
Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)
About Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)
Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)
Shawn Gude on Twitter / X
.@BernieSanders: "An essential story about one of America’s greatest champions for workers." Sara Nelson (@FlyingWithSara): "This book couldn’t be more timely.” @GraceBlakeley: "Masterful." Preorder American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs today!…— Shawn Gude (@shawngude) August 31, 2026
Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
Planar Pioneers | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse
Jeff Atwood wants to improve the entire internet. That's always been his goal a better place. He started by co-founding StackOverflow, a question-and-answer site for software developers that revolutionized the way they learn online, and eventually, this evolved into StackExchange, a network of Q&A sites spanning myriad topics. Now, Atwood has renewed his crusade with Discourse, an open source application for building online message boards that he hopes will become as ubiquitous as WordPress.
Interdependent Thoughts
Bookmarked Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker
philosophy for life on Twitter / X
“Your mind is your greatest power and your greatest prison.”- Marcus Aurelius— philosophy for life (@philosophy_life) October 11, 2026