Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss is a start-up angel investor (Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime, and others), blogger, and entrepreneur. His best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2nd straight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007.
Tim is also a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he has spoken on high-tech entrepreneurship since 2003 in the Electrical Engineering and ORFE departments. Other education-related interests include social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, he used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org.
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How to achieve work-life "separation" (vs. "balance", which doesn't work) and reclaim time |
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How to overcome information overload and check e-mail once per day, or once per week, even in a corporate environment |
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How to double output in 48 hours with strategic task elimination |
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How to outsource and automate life in a digital world, freeing you or your employees to focus on high-yield, instead of time-consuming, activities |
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How to upgrade your work environment to value performance over presence, increasing profits while reducing burnout and turnover |
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