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)
This is a housekeeping post with one time-sensitive update and smaller recommendations. It’s split into two parts: The $5,000 Secret Santa Bite-sized Recommendations: 2 Books, 2 Movies, 2 Tweets, and 2 Songs. The $5,000 Secret Santa The short version: I’ve decided to go crazy and do a one-time-only $5,000 Quarterly box. It’s limited to the …
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Pretty soon, many of you will get an email from me. It’ll probably surprise you. See, when I sketched out the original 4-Hour Workweek site in 2006 (sorely in need of a redesign), I included an email capture field, as that’s what friends said I should do: Then I promptly forgot all about it. I hated …
What happens when you hug strangers? Andrew Hales of LAHWF wanted me to find out. The above video took place in Dolores Park in San Francisco last Thursday, around 5:30pm. All people hugged are complete strangers. Andrew challenged me to make the awkward even more awkward: Could I score a hug by simply standing like a zombie with …
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First, An Email This short post was inspired by an email. John Heltzel, who’s on the non-profit board of Hand in Hand Parenting, sent me the following: I was recently having dinner at Los Altos Grill with a CEO. He lamented that he travelled a lot and was having trouble re-connecting with his kids when …
Hi All, This post is simply a few time-sensitive announcements. More juicy content (really fun stuff) coming in the next post. LIVE AND FREE Q&A TODAY! – 2 HOURS LONG, ASK ME ANYTHING I’m doing a live two-hour Q&A session today — please join me! Just go to this Facebook page, click “Like”, and ask …
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(Photo: Kevin Dooley) Just for fun, I asked my start-ups (and a few friends) if they’d like to offer y’all a little something special from the holidays. Here’s an incomplete list. Many are working on top-secret stuff and couldn’t jump in, but a few were game on last-minute notice, so here you go! They are …
Banksy grafitti close to the Roundhouse, Camden Town, London (Photo: CanonSnapper) Just two quick housekeeping items, then back to our regular programming — some fun content coming — next post. First, how you can get your product or service in front of 200 influencers this week; second, an update on the overwhelmingly successful school campaign. …
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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 …
It doesn’t take a lot of time, money, or sacrifice to do an incredible amount of good. Hence the name of this post (and potential series): Five Minutes on Friday. Even if it’s not Friday, this post might interest you… Can you — and can I — take just five minutes each Friday (or Saturday, …
(Photo: Sybren A. Stüvel) Neil Strauss has written six New York Times bestsellers and is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine. From the standpoint of most aspiring writers, he’s reached the pinnacle of success. That’s why I first sent him an e-mail in 2005. I attached a draft book proposal and asked for his …
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