The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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)
Save the swimmies! (Photo: futurowoman) I never thought I’d visit a sperm bank. Perhaps it was flipping a motorcycle at 90 mph on Infineon Raceway. Perhaps it was tearing my Achilles tendon in jiu-jitsu practice, then getting thrown on my head. Maybe having my scuba mask fill with blood at 120 feet underwater in Belize? …
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Taking the Tesla Roadster, the world’s most famous electric sports car, for a spin. (Photo credits: Monica Michelle) The Tesla Roadster — at 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds — is faster off the blocks than both the Ferrari F430 and the Lamborghini Gallardo. Oh, and it burns no oil. The 2009 model is …
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How do you skip the line and get the corner table? (photo: Thomas Hawk) An evening out should be special, especially if it’s an expensive evening. But too often it’s a disappointment. Does the following scenario sound familiar? After weeks of trying to score a reservation at that new restaurant that just got a great …
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Take 10 seconds today to fill up your karmic bank account. (photo: woodleywonderworks) Part 1 – The Favor and Bribe This two-part post is interrelated, so I recommend you read both sections. If you take 10 seconds to do the first part, it should — based on the research — make you a happier person. …
Just take a right at…. huh? (Street signs in Wales) In the wee morning hours of September, I took my first trip to Wales to experience The Do Lectures, which is held in tents in the Cardigan wilderness. Not only did I get to sleep under deer skins in a high-end geodesic dome (not kidding), …
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The unbelievable Oregon coastline. (Photo: liquidskyarts) Six weeks ago I conducted my first social media travel experiment. I posed a simple question and let your responses to me on Twitter and this blog dictate exactly what I did on a 12-day roadtrip with my brother from San Francisco to Vancouver, Canada. No packing or planning …
SPRING 2005, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY I had to bribe them. What other choice did I have? My lecture at Princeton had just ended with smiles and enthusiastic questions. At the same time, I knew that most students would go out and promptly do the opposite of what I preached. Most of them would be putting …
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Gentle on nature, hard on Jedi. (More great Eco-Boba pics here.) Boba Fett was always my favorite Star Wars character. Here’s your chance to emulate him and become a bounty hunter. Prizes go to the bold. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than 125 million cell phones are thrown away each …
Napping after lunch at the new Vang Lam preschool in Vietnam. So cute a lumberjack would cry. Remember LitLiberation, the social media educational experiment I ran with bloggers not long ago? With zero financing or hard costs, this new model ended up raising more than $250,000 in less than a month, more than Stephen Colbert, …
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