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I'd recommend his book. Very short to read and the tone is the same - https://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-Want-Derek-Sivers/dp/193...

One of my favourite books about start-ups but here are a few more - https://medium.com/@KatAlexPas/an-hour-and-a-half-a-day-of-r...

Everything you do needs to involve building a process to hand off to someone else

Derek Sivers also discusses this issue in Anything You Want (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936719118), which one of my favorite books, ever, and highly recommended.

His holding company's website gives updates of what he's working on (http://nownownow.com/). In addition, he released a book last summer called 'Anything You Want' (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936719118?tag=cdbaby).

I send this as part of my "last e-mail" to students every semester:

This is the post that could but probably won't change your life: "There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life)" http://sivers.org/kimo . I say "could," because most of you probably won't click the link; of those of you who do, most of you won't read the whole thing; of those of you who do, most of you won't get it; of those who do, most won't implement it. On the off chance that one out of 50 of you let this change your life, however, I'm sending it. Derek Sivers, who posted "There's no speed limit," also wrote a book called Anything You Want, [1] and reading it is probably one of the best ways you can spend an hour.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936719118?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-...

⬐ Sukotto

Why not send that at the start of the school year instead of the end? Maybe along with a challenge to learn your class material in half the semester. Or assign it as an optional reading assignment worth a small bonus % if they submit a brief plan on how they would apply the advice in that article in your own class.

Is the tone of your email what you really intend? To me it reads like "I'm probably wasting my valuable time casting pearls before you swine. But just in case even ONE of you is worthy, here is some good advice from Derek Sivers". I find it dismissive, bordering on contempt.

⬐ jseliger

I don't think my students have the context necessary to make sense of Sivers' point before they go through the whole class.

I'm just being honest in the e-mail.

⬐ hef19898

Yep, definitely agree!

And a lot of the things pg wrote. Not a single essay, more the overall picture he discribed.

⬐ cynest

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766060