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)
“If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right.” This is a special episode because it doesn’t focus on the lessons of one particular person. Instead, I explore the tips, tricks, and framework I’ve used to learn just about any skill. This is the meta-skill of meta-learning, or learning how to learn. …
Continue reading “The Art and Science of Learning Anything Faster (#191)”
One tiny favor! If you’re enjoying the podcast, could you please take 30 seconds now to leave a brief review on iTunes? Just click “View in iTunes” under my pic here. Once I pass 2,000 reviews, I’ll reciprocate by writing a massive, behind-the-scenes post on everything I’ve learned about podcasting. I promise tricks of the trade …
Allow me to explain using a related problem. Vocabulary lists in a run-of-the-mill Spanish textbook usually look something like the below, taken from real-world sources I won’t shame by naming: La mano – the hand El arbol – the tree Las muñecas – the wrists ¡Nos vemos mañana! – See you tomorrow! Mande? – Sorry? Pardon? What …
Jony Ive and his elite design team at Apple are coffee snobs. And rightfully so. Coffee is the fuel that drives their brainstorming sessions, which are arguably the most important meetings in the design department. These sessions are where Apple has birthed some of the greatest products of all-time: the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and …
As a thank-you to all of you today, I am today releasing the audiobook of The 4-Hour Chef…for free. This includes almost 10 hours of recording: all of the chapters on accelerated learning, all of the ridiculous experiments and related stories, and much more. I’m partnering with BitTorrent again to bring you a bundle of …
Continue reading “The BitTorrent Strikes Back: The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook Goes Loose”
[Editor’s note: The video referred to in this article is no longer available for embed. To view it, please search “Tim Ferriss full keynote The Next Web 2013 TNW2013 Conference Amsterdam” on YouTube.] The above video is a short presentation I gave at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. It covers a basic framework for …
Continue reading “A How-To Guide: Accelerated Learning for Accelerated Times”
How do you create a viral video? I am asked this quite a lot. I’ve been asked by authors, TV producers, and first-time Kickstarter entrepreneurs. In my experience, the answers are the same for all of them. In this post, I’ll deconstruct one example: The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) book trailer, which is now the most-viewed …
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Inspired by The 4-Hour Chef, the friendly folks over at the startup Maptia (launching soon) have created this fun typographic map of flavors from around the world. You can download a large version by clicking here. Aside from the map, this post showcases 36 simple recipes and flavor combinations from the 36 regions covered in …
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Greetings from Paris! I am ecstatic to announce that The 4-Hour Chef has won Best First Cookbook at the 18th Annual “Best in the World” Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (!!!). 26,000+ food and wine books are produced every year, and 8,000+ books from more than 100 countries participate in the Gourmand Awards. I was at …
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Ya’ll rock! (Picture: Broken down on the roadside, pre-Burning Man). Without further ado, the results of the video trailer competition! All entries were viewed by me and my esteemed panel of judges, elves, and magic robots. As explained in the original post, the winner provided the best combination of creativity, book explanation, and total view …
Continue reading “The 4-Hour Chef Trailer Competition – Winner and Honorable Mentions”