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)
I’ve written about my morning journaling routine once before. But my journaling–think of it as freezing thinking on paper–isn’t limited to mornings. I use it as a tool to clarify my thinking and goals, much as Kevin Kelly (one of my favorite humans) does. The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind. Below is a scan …
One of the questions I’m constantly asked is, “How do I get influencers to help me?” This blog post will outline approaches that work with true “influencers”–people who can single-handedly make or break a product launch. I’ve been fortunate to interact with hundreds of such people since 2007. (If you’re more interested in pitching big …
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“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 …
Continue reading “How to Decrease E-mail Overwhelm — The First Step”
The following is an e-mail I received from Paul Colligan, which inspired me to finally take the leap and get Facebook under control. To tame the beast and use it, instead of having it use me. I hope you find it useful, or at least entertaining. Paul, if you mind me putting this up, please …
Auto-response from Gary Vaynerchuk: Subject line: Thanks for the email — click the link Hey, here’s a link that will explain everything! http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-inbox Before the economic recession hits us like a Pamplona bull, we will have long entered an digital recession characterized by lower per-hour output from digital workers and a higher incidence of problems …
Continue reading “Preventing Email Bankruptcy: From 1920's Postcards to Video Confessions”
I had a fun conversation with the smart and well-dressed Pete Cashmore of Mashable after speaking at the SF MusicTech Summit, where I was interviewed by Derek Sivers of CDBaby fame. Pete and I discussed/answered: 1. What is the single most important thing that CEOs can do to conquer information overload? 2. The value of …
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Reflecting or deleting e-mail can be an art form. (Photo: marinegirl) An increasingly popular approach for escaping the inbox is the routine use of e-mail autoresponders. Love it or hate it, reflecting or deleting e-mail can be an art form. I’ve collected some of my favorite autoresponders of 2007 from Gmail and included them below. …
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What if you never had to check e-mail again? If you could hire someone else to be spend countless hours in your inbox instead of you? This isn’t pure fantasy. For the last 12 months, I’ve experimented with removing myself from the inbox entirely by training other people to behave like me. Not to imitate …
Continue reading “The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again”
First, the 4-minute mile couldn’t be broken. Then, men couldn’t land on the moon. Now, most have accepted e-mail as the permanent bane of their working existences. But not all of us. The following came to me via the prodigal Cameron Johnson, originally in USA Today. Below it are my recommendations for making this weekend …
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The menu in the Slovak Republic: full-contact video below. Long time no see! I just landed back in CA from a long overdue mini-retirement through London, Scotland, Sardinia, Slovak Republic, Austria, Amsterdam, and Japan. Some unpleasant surprises awaited me when I checked in on the evil e-mail inbox. Why? I let them happen. I always …
Continue reading “The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen (and Weapons of Mass Distraction)”