The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

[Andy Nguyen]

Has anyone read this book? It looks like one interesting book. It's on NYT Best-selling list and has 1,100+ reviews on Amazon with mostly 5 stars.
The book is about life style. Here is the description
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
•How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
•How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
•How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
•How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
•How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”
Amazon.com: The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content. (9780307465351): Timothy Ferriss: Books

 

[Andy D.]

Andy - I've read it. It's OK but a lot of it is unfeasible for most jobs.

•How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week

Basically here he was selling vitamin supplements. He got rid of the buyers who took up too much of his time for too little money and concentrated on a few bigger clients.

How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want

he paid for a personal assistnt in India to keep track of things for him. The $5 is misleading, as he basically says in the book the more you spend the better the quality.

How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs

He covers a few things here e.g. working from home for your company and when you're on your tele-work day, doing something else (and out sourcing your work).

How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist

He discusses the 80:20 rule.

How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”

To summarize - make some money then go live in a country where the cost of living in cheaper.


As I say it is worth a read but plenty of it will be pretty obvious to anyone who has been a software contractor .