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Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog. Tim is an author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, investor (FB, Uber, Twitter, 50+ more), and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (400M+ downloads)
The Wilburns have used freelancers in India, Israel, and Britain. (Photo: Dana Smith) Here is the beginning of a worthwhile article in the current issue of Businessweek called “Mom-and-Pop Multinationals” [ed. note: please allow extra load time, as this link now goes to the Internet Archive]. Ever wondered how much personal outsourcing really costs? How to …
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The goal is NOT inactivity. (Photo: the super smart and sexy Pinar Ozger) Perhaps the most common question I’m asked is “what do you do all day?” I was recently interviewed by J.D. Roth on his popular personal finance blog, and one of his readers wrote in with the following: “I would like to know …
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Contacting would-be VIP mentors is something most people have trouble with. The question isn’t just “how do I contact them?” but also “how should I communicate with them once I do?” I teach students how to reach the unreachables in my guest lectures at Princeton, and here is my response to a recent e-mail about …
The below article, titled “Fail Better” and written by Adam Gottesfeld, explores how I teach Princeton students to connect with luminary-level business mentors and celebrities of various types. I’ve edited it to be shorter and clearer in a few places. People are fond of using the “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” …
Continue reading “How to Get George Bush or the CEO of Google on the Phone”
First, the 4-minute mile couldn’t be broken. Then, men couldn’t land on the moon. Now, most have accepted e-mail as the permanent bane of their working existences. But not all of us. The following came to me via the prodigal Cameron Johnson, originally in USA Today. Below it are my recommendations for making this weekend …
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So good I had to show it to you again. This past Tuesday, I was part of a segment on the CBS Early Show on personal outsourcing called “Average Joes, Janes Outsourcing Tasks.” Check out the video, one of the best I’ve seen on the topic, here. It includes case studies. Two of my favorite …
Continue reading “The Personal Outsourcing Olympics: Bangalore Butler or American Assistant?”
Forget drag races and movie stars with “nitrous.” Instead, imagine using spotting planes, counterfeit police cars, and thermal night-vision cameras to break the record for the famed Cannonball Run from NY to LA: 32 hours and 7 minutes. How to do it? Sustain approximately 130 miles per hour on average the entire time (when you …
Continue reading “Meet the Real Fast and Furious: 130 MPH, Creating Supercars, and Breaking Records”
How did this first page of brainstorming lead to out-raising Colbert Report 3-to-1? 1:30am Bratislava, Slovakia, this past September 31 One cappuccino, two cappuccino, three cappuccino, four. Neurons humming but still no dice. It was time to get nervous. “Hey, mate. We’re heading out to Sub Club. You want to come?” Chris, a Kiwi and …
Continue reading “Embracing Ignorance as Advantage—a Case Study (Plus: Speaking Nov. 5th and 10th)”
The menu in the Slovak Republic: full-contact video below. Long time no see! I just landed back in CA from a long overdue mini-retirement through London, Scotland, Sardinia, Slovak Republic, Austria, Amsterdam, and Japan. Some unpleasant surprises awaited me when I checked in on the evil e-mail inbox. Why? I let them happen. I always …
Continue reading “The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen (and Weapons of Mass Distraction)”