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)
First, a few questions from Eastern Europe for you all. Take a minute to seriously consider each: Envision the 5 books that have most impacted your life. How would your life be different if you’d never read them? Where might you be today if you’d never met the most influential teachers in your life, past …
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Greetings from a jazz bar in Sardinia, Italy! If you’d like to see what I pack when I also hit cold weather like the pelting rain of Scotland — while still keeping it under 20 lbs. — check out my recent post on Gadling here. The Monica grape wine here is excellent and a new …
Oktoberfest is good for reactivating German but bad for livers. ((c) Dave77459) How can you possibly maintain fluency in two foreign languages — let alone five or six — if the opportunities to use them are months or years apart? In 20 minutes, I leave from JFK for Iceland, then Scotland, and then a circle …
If you don’t have OCD already, I apologize. This post will give it to you… and you’ll thank me for it. When I was 15, I went to Japan for one year as an exchange student. I was the lone American in a school of 5,000 Japanese, and I quickly acquired one habit that has …
Neckties can be cool when they’re not lopsided. ((c) fresh pesh) His name was the “Egyptian magician.” Well, that was his nickname, anyway. He lived down the hall from me my sophomore year of high school and delighted in laughing at my mangled attempts at wearing neckties. I didn’t realize he was laughing at my …
Pocari Sweat, not to be confused with Calpis I am a consummate consumer in the literal sense. Beverages, perhaps more than any other indulgence, have fascinated me from my first sip of Pocari Sweat in Japan. From Brazil to Zimbabwe, each locale has its superstar drink, and some are as defining of the culture as …
Continue reading “The Best 8 Beverages in the World (Plus: Maui Treehouse and Wild Dog Video)”
The incredible Sony VAIO VGN-TXN27N laptop. This beauty is less than 2″ thick and weighs 2.8 lbs. If I add a few ounces of weight with the extended battery (on the right) and trick it out, I can get 15 hours of battery life. [Update: I now use a MacBook Air] The name of the …
My view from three hours ago in Fortuna, Costa Rica: Volcano Arenal (Photo from Arenal.net) One of the most common questions I get is: what now? Following the book, what’s my next project? I have a few interesting ideas brewing, but one is bigger than all the rest combined: double the number of science majors …
The last week has been surreal. It all began with an e-mail from a reader last Thursday at 11:34pm tipping me off to the impossible. Fumbling for the remote, I caught it just in time — Jay Leno spoofing The 4-Hour Workweek! [Update: the link I had here has been deleted or exceeded bandwidth, so …
Continue reading “Leno Book Spoof, Tim vs. Donny Deutsch, and First Live Q&A with Tim”
“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” -Dave Barry Chilling on a Smithsonian research island in Panama. Heaven on earth? Perhaps, but there are hundreds of places …
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