Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris?

Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by shabda on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:42PM (#280656)

I read this book around 2 weeks, you need to take parts of it which make sense. For example, I think his "Low Information Diet" makes a lot of sense. (Essentially he says that, don't, don't partake any information, unless you need that to use it that day). Last week, I logged out of all IM, stopped coming to news.yc, and all social sites, and got done about twice of while I get done in a week. (But its hard, so here I am back on news.yc!)

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by randomtask on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @03:14PM (#280701)

I never managed that for more than about a week either. Glad to know I'm not the only one :)

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by cbetz on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @03:35PM (#280727)

I highly recommend the LeechBlock add-on for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476). You can tell it to only let you read X minutes of HN (or any other site) in a day, and then it will block you.

This add-on has really helped me get through my current project. In fact I had better finish typing this quickly before my HN/Slashdot/gmail limit runs out.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by thorax on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @11:38PM (#281166)

I use 8aweek.com for a similar benefit.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by cmm324 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @01:24PM (#282896)

I agree with the low information diet, I also agree that it is difficult as ever to stick to it.

I found his book to be inspiring and extremely useful from a startup stand point and a "muse" stand point. He was just cover story for Mens Journal:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/08/19/4hww-cover-s...

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by cmm324 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @04:33PM (#283125)

I took the initiative to forward this post to the author, Tim Ferriss. He provided me with the following quote:

"Hi Chris, thanks so much for the link. I won't jump into the fray here, but feel free to post this quote on the board. I'm a huge fan of Paul Graham and his blog is one of my top 10 when I speak to media. I also just attended the Y-Combinator demo day this week, where I met Paul. His philosophies and mine do not conflict, best I can tell. If anyone reads the book or even the latest Men's Journal profile, I always emphasize that inactivity ISN'T the goal. I work my ass off on things that are meaningful to me, but 1) they are not primarily financially-driven, and 2) I measure results vs. effort. I suspect Paul wouldn't have an issue with either of these. Keep up the good fight... -Tim"

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