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Old 11-15-2007, 05:38 AM
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Old 11-15-2007, 08:19 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

I have not read the book, so this is far from fair criticism...

...but the NYT article seems to be about some rich guy who decided to pay cheap labor to read this email and do menial tasks for him, and then said that reading less email was the path to more time.

If I could pay someone to come in and do my job for me, yes, I too would have more time.
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Old 11-15-2007, 08:31 AM
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Old 11-15-2007, 09:27 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

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If I could pay someone to come in and do my job for me, yes, I too would have more time.

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ummm, exactly?

You don't see how thats pretty useful information if you are a business owner? lol

Lots of people doing work that could be done for them for $10 an hour. They could use that extra time to sit on the beach or grow their business or do whatever they want.

The book goes into great detail about ways to save time, why to save time, and also what to do with your time once you have it.

If you do not see the value in that, well...

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If that's the premise of the book, then it's just not directed at me and my criticism is meaningless. If it's directed at business owners, that's not me.
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Old 11-15-2007, 10:05 AM
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Old 11-15-2007, 10:26 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

I've heard great things about the book, haven't gotten around to reading it.

Re: the telecommuting idea - yeah it's great, but it's a fine line between being overproductive and underproductive on your off days as soon they will expect more work from you or better projects, or you will be too useful or not useful enough, just something i've heard from people that do it.

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yeah it would be great to hire a bunch of people to work for me while I sit on a beach, unfortunately I can't , 99% of the population is also in this predicament....

If I had 10M then this would be no problem...but then I likely wouldn't need the book?

Sounds like the same problem as the rich dad/poor dad books or how to make a million books... you could start by saving your money and NOT buying this book....

This is just from what I gather in your post. When I read the book I'll probably change my mind.
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Old 11-15-2007, 10:41 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

"If you read the book, you can see how this is definitely possible if you have enough virtual assistants (who get paid as little as $3 per hour) carrying out all of the small details for you."

How is that different from running a business? I will look into the book, but I am skeptical of this genre.
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Old 11-15-2007, 10:52 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

1) every time your gf has sex with you, give her a cookie
2) when she doesn't have sex with you, don't give her a cookie
3) you will be getting tons of ass in no time!
4) hire Indian servants to train her at the gym so she doesn't get fat
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Old 11-15-2007, 11:00 AM
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I've heard great things about the book, haven't gotten around to reading it.


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I paid an indian guy $3 to read it for me. It's pretty good.
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Old 11-15-2007, 11:36 AM
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Default Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

I see this working for certain types of jobs that have a lot of administrative crap (booking flights, schedules, etc), but a lot of my work is client management/networking/etc that can't really be outsourced. The stuff that can be done at a computer is privileged and confidential and I would probably get fired if I tried to outsource it.

What I would consider this for is

a) paying some guy to be my pokertracker at sites without poker tracker (ie sifting through hand histories, recording date and time, + or - $ on session, limit, number of hands, etc)

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b) keeping track of friends' and families' special occasions, sending cards and gifts, etc., making sure I keep in better touch with people.
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