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)
Please enjoy this transcript of a special Random Show with Kevin Rose commemorating the 10th Anniversary of The Tim Ferriss Show. As many listeners know, Kevin was my very first guest on the podcast, way back in April 2014. Who is Kevin Rose? Kevin (@kevinrose) is a partner at True Ventures, an early-stage venture-capital firm …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Dr. Martha Beck (@themarthabeck). Martha has been called “the best-known life coach in America” by NPR and USA Today. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science and has published nine non-fiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. The Guardian and other media have …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Dr. David Spiegel, Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Reed Hastings (@reedhastings), who became executive chairman of Netflix in 2023, after 25 years as CEO. He co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with actor Scott Glenn. Scott’s career spans nearly 60 years. His impressive film resume includes performances in Apocalypse Now, Urban Cowboy, The Right Stuff, Silverado, The Hunt for Red October, The Silence of the Lambs, Backdraft, The Virgin Suicides, and The Bourne Ultimatum. More recently, Scott has appeared …
Please enjoy this transcript of my walk-and-talk interview with Seth Godin, author of 21 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work. His books have been translated into 38 languages and include Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. Seth writes one of the most popular marketing blogs in …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Hugh Howey (@hughhowey), the New York Times bestselling author of Wool, Beacon 23, Sand, Machine Learning, Half Way Home, and more than a dozen other novels. His Silo trilogy was recently adapted by Apple TV, becoming their #1 drama of all time. A series based on his …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Barbara Corcoran (@BarbaraCorcoran), an investor/Shark for the past 15 seasons on ABC’s four-time Emmy-award-winning show, Shark Tank, investing in more than 100 businesses to date. She is also the founder of an eponymous real-estate company, which she started with a $1,000 loan after leaving her job as …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Claire Hughes Johnson (@chughesjohnson), who currently serves as a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Claire previously served as Stripe’s chief operating officer from 2014 to 2021, helping grow the company from fewer than 200 employees …
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he is also a founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics. In addition to his academic work, Newport is a New York Times bestselling author who writes for a general audience about the intersection of …