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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 (300M+ downloads)
(Photo: vramak) It’s finally time to tell you all. My next book will be a hacker’s guide to the human body. The working title is “From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman.” It has actually been planned for more than two years. I’ve recorded almost every workout I’ve done since age …
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(Photo: monkeyc.net) If there is one thing I’ve learned from this blog, it’s that the readers here — that’s you — have some stellar ideas and skills. For the next book, tentatively titled “Becoming Superhuman”, I would therefore love to invite any designers out there to throw their hat in the ring for the cover …
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Total reading time: 9 minutes. How would you like to light a fire perfectly and have it burn for 3-7 hours without touching it or putting on more wood? It can be done, every time, but it requires forgetting everything you’ve learned about starting fires…
Simple is beautiful (Photo: Razzziel) To learn a skill, I often look — not for the best in the world — but for people who’ve made the greatest progress in the shortest period of time. Thus, to gain muscle mass, for example, I would rather examine the training and diet log of someone who went …
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Training in horseback archery in Nikko, Japan. (Photo: David West) 2008 has been one of the most exciting years of my life. I did more dealmaking and met more people than in the last 5 years combined. This produced many surprise insights about business and human nature, especially as I uncovered tons of my own …
The last 72 hours – that’s me on the right. (Source: AgentGenius) I opened an appropriate fortune cookie last week: “A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.” It’s important to always have a Plan B. Take, for instance, a book launch. It’s easy to miss the bestseller list if you don’t have a …
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Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park: more than 50 million albums and counting. (Photo: norrelb) Rather than sprinkle these announcements around, I figured I’d just load up one post. Hope to bump into some of you at one of these! Keynote with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park in Las Vegas I’ll be doing an opening keynote …
Greetings from London. I thought I’d share the below quote, which was sent to me (Thanks, Thao!) when I was considering whether or not to put up the controversial FISA post. I knew beforehand that it would lose me some readers. The few words below cut through hours of meaningless deliberation and made the decision …
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What happens when a successful US-based computer programmer, who lost his lucrative job to outsourcing, travels to India to try to get it back? Will he discover the secret of India’s success, or that sending jobs overseas is an unstable gamble? The videos below share his incredible experience. It’s a fascinating and humanizing portrait of …