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)
Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas [Ed. note: We’ve been able to repair some links by redirecting to the Internet Archives. Please allow extra load times for these pages.] How far can you push personal outsourcing? Can you outsource your dating? I did. Can you outsource your worrying? AJ Jacobs did. Reading to …
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“I must create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s.” -William Blake Forget the paperless office — it’s aiming too low. Let’s take a look at the bigger picture: a paperless life. While we’re at it, let’s also eliminate three other nuisances: answering the phone, checking voicemail, and returning phone calls. Is this possible? …
I spend a good amount of time at the offices of Podtech, usually stealing their Diet Dr. Pepper and hanging out on their bean bags. A few weeks ago, however, I managed to do something resembling “work”: an interview with uberblogger Robert Scoble. This time, I was the interviewee! The camera work is much better …
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The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done. Tao Te Ching Chapter 38 Is it possible to outsource your life to other countries? By now, you know that I believe it is. But is it necessary to outsource overseas? …
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If you thought washing your hands 32 times a day was fun, just try this! (Chicago O’Hare Airport) By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -Robert Frost, American Poet I’ve long sought a measurement for lifestyle, something better than bank accounts or …
Presenting “Mastering the Low-Information Diet” at the Web 2.0 Exposition in SF (Scott Beale / Laughing Squid) Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon… Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google… Tim Ferriss?! Too surreal. I presented last Sunday at the Ignite portion of the huge Web 2.0 Expo, where two groups of speakers each gave 5-minute …
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Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I don’t spend much time juggling frequent flyer miles. Nor do I squander hours making pennies on the dollar with point schemes or signing up for the latest special-offer credit cards. I have four credit cards (two personal, two business) for separating expenses, …