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)
(Photo: Aaron Benitez) Would you like to win one of four laptops (and a dozen other items) that I used to write three bestselling books? Given that a galley of The 4-Hour Workweek once sold on eBay for $2,600, these could end up being collector’s items. Stranger things have happened. This post details how to …
Smiling with the Hario hand grinder. Combine with the AeroPress below, and you can make world-class coffee on an airplane meal tray. I dislike shopping, but I do love finding the perfect gift. Finding that gift, though, gets harder with time. Those damn adults seem to already have everything. That includes me. More salt and …
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(Photo: Small Dog Electronics) Macs are easy to use. Intuitive! Viruses? Never heard of ’em! Well, perhaps. But problems do crop up, even with the venerated Macintosh. Not long ago, I went to use Spotlight (cmd + spacebar) and, well, it looked a little off. It displayed “Indexing Spotlight,” with an estimated finish time of …
Playing Santa isn’t easy. (Credit: GarlandCannon) I dislike shopping, but I love finding the perfect gift. Finding that gift, though, gets harder with time. Those damn adults seem to already have everything. That includes me. More salt and pepper shakers? Nah. Alternate versions of the shirts I got last year? No, thank you. In the …
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This pre-China trip includes the below: – Personal experiences with Y-Combinator, demo days, and pitching new ideas through avenues like YC. – Five things you can do as a new startup to get your ideas, app, or product in front of influencers. – Tweaking your website: per-user metrics, cost per acquisition, lifetime value of the …
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The wrong chair = real health problems. (Photo: watz) (Total read time: 8 minutes) In this post I’ll cover how I identified the best high-end chairs in the world, which I ultimately chose, and the tangible results that followed. In January of 2005, I found myself on a veranda in Panama after the usual afternoon …
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In October, I was contacted by a film team from USC about doing a Cisco-sponsored profile of my home for a series titled “Digital Cribs.” See all of the homes filmed here on the right-hand side — some are incredible. This video (link) was the end result…
Don’t pimp real foxes. That’s just mean. (Photo: wildphotons) 38.16% of the people who visit this site are still using Internet Explorer (IE). It’s like buying a hybrid car for the gas mileage and then driving with flat tires and the doors open. This post will serve two purposes: first, to introduce beginners to features …
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Bigger is better? (Photo: ikelee) According to University of Utah researchers, using a larger monitor could save you 2.5 hours per day. Specifically, test subjects completed everyday tasks like editing documents and massaging spreadsheets 52% faster when using a 24-inch monitor than they did with an 18-incher. Not sure who uses 18-inch screens (17″ and …
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The Slingshot Monkey is guaranteed to make anyone a 6-year old. What could be better? I love Christmas. Bright colored lights, snow, butter cookies, multicolored socks, scarves, pine trees, garland, the warmth of flames in the fireplace and uplifting cheerful music that gets everyone tapping and smiling… ah, X-mas! But… sometimes it’s hard to figure …
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