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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)
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau I’m often asked how to handle e-mail overwhelm. While I do use some great apps to help stem the flood, the most important shield is still low-tech: a rock-solid e-mail autoresponder. This unsexy tool allows you to ignore some or …
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Edmund Wilson, recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal for Literature, was one of the most prominent social and literary critics of the 20th century. He realized, like most uber-productive people, that, while there were many behaviors needed to guarantee high output, there was one single behavior guaranteed to prevent …
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