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Welcome to tim.blog, my home on the interwebs. I’m Tim Ferriss, an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans.
I am the host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has more than one billion downloads. I also publish 5-Bullet Friday, a free, weekly email that describes the five coolest things I’ve found or explored that week. It goes out to a few million people and takes just a few minutes to read. You can find more of my bio here.
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Practical Philosophy
11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)
Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life
Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month
Why You Need a “Deloading” Phase in Life
How to Say “No” When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation”)
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead
How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades
How to Cure Anxiety — One Workaholic’s Story, Six Techniques That Work
Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment
Business & Entrepreneurship
Ideal Lifestyle Costing (Incl. Monthly Expense Calculator, Dreamlining Calculators, and Worksheet)
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA (I)
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA (II)
How I Built a #1-Ranked Podcast With 60M+ Downloads
The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months
How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
How to Gather 100,000 Emails in One Week (Includes Successful Templates, Code, Everything You Need)
Fitness & Health
The Morning Cocktail I Drink Instead Of Coffee
5 Morning Rituals That Help Me Win the Day
From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
The Science of Fat-Loss: Why a Calorie Isn’t Always a Calorie
How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives
How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or “Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days”)
Pavel: 80/20 Powerlifting and How to Add 110+ Pounds to Your Lifts
Book Recommendations
The Best Books and Articles I Read in 2019
My Favorite and Most Impactful Reads of 2020
My Favorite and Most Impactful Reads of 2021
Books I’ve Loved — Tim’s Four Must-Read Books
You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves
Tribe of Mentors — Recommended Books from Mentors and Top Books from Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
The Top 10 Fiction Books for Non-Fiction Addicts
The Unusual Books That Shaped 50+ Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies
Language Learning
12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need
How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour
How to Learn Any Language in Record Time and Never Forget It
Productivity
“Productivity” Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)
The Psychology of Automation: Building a Bulletproof Personal-Finance System
Public Speaking — How I Prepare Every Time
The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now
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- COCKPUNCH (7)
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- Fearless (2)
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- Investing (19)
- Language (16)
- Low-Information Diet (42)
- Marketing (54)
- Mental Performance (42)
- Mini-retirements (24)
- Muse Examples (9)
- Nonsense (5)
- Opening the Kimono – OTK (3)
- Outsourcing Life (17)
- Physical Performance (50)
- Practical Philosophy (39)
- Presentations (3)
- Protecting Time (14)
- Psychedelics (18)
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- Random (29)
- Remote Offices (7)
- Rockstar Living in… (5)
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- Science (6)
- The 4-Hour Body – 4HB (54)
- The 4-Hour Chef – 4HC (39)
- The 4-Hour Chef Recipes (1)
- The Book – 4HWW (45)
- The Slow-Carb Diet (5)
- The Tim Ferriss Experiment – TFX (11)
- The Tim Ferriss Show (797)
- The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts (594)
- Tim Ferriss Book Club (6)
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