The Curious Engineer

The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

2007–2015

640 posts

2016–2026 →

2015 86

December 2015

  1. Derek Sivers Reloaded – On Success Habits and Billionaires with Perfect Abs (#128)
  2. How to Decrease E-mail Overwhelm — The First Step
  3. Amelia Boone on Beating 99% of Men and Suffering for High Performance (#127)
  4. 25 Great Things I Learned from Podcast Guests in 2015 (#126)
  5. Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to Millions (#125)
  6. Jamie Foxx on Workout Routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood Stories (#124)
  7. Rainn Wilson on Meditation, The Sexy Nostril Exercise, and Acting as Therapy (#123)

November 2015

  1. The Magic of Mindfulness: Complain Less, Appreciate More, and Live a Better Life (#122)
  2. B.J. Novak of The Office on Creative Process, Handling Rejection, and Good Comedy (#121)
  3. Will MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Y Combinator, and Artificial Intelligence (#120)
  4. Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen (#119)
  5. How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton (#118)
  6. How to Travel the World for Free (And Win $4,000+ Worth of Prizes, Plus a Private Q&A)
  7. Dom D'Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer (#117)

October 2015

  1. How to Say No When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation'”)
  2. How Renegade Filmmaker Casey Neistat Breaks Rules, Reinvents Himself, and Gets Thanked For It (#116)
  3. Thinking About Extra Dimensions with Physicist Lisa Randall (#115)
  4. The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin (#114)
  5. 5 Tools I Use For Faster And Better Sleep (#113)
  6. Inside an "Anything Goes" Sex Club
  7. The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso (#112)
  8. Should You Start a 'Startup' or Build a Cash-Flow Business? (#111)
  9. The Tattooed Heretic of Wine and Whiskey, Richard Betts (#110)
  10. The 5 Things I Did To Become a Better Investor (#109)

September 2015

  1. Comedy's Dynamic Duo, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (#108)
  2. The Scariest Navy SEAL Imaginable…And What He Taught Me (#107)
  3. Scott Adams: The Man Behind Dilbert (#106)
  4. The Random Show: Okinawa, Pee on the Head, "Medicinal Spirits," and Jedi Force Tiki Toss
  5. 5 Morning Rituals That Help Me Win the Day (#105)
  6. Are Psychedelic Drugs the Next Medical Breakthrough? (#104)
  7. Drunk Dialing Fans — Celebrating The 100th Podcast Episode! (#103)
  8. "The Iceman," Wim Hof (#102)

August 2015

  1. The Oracle of Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman (Plus: Michael McCullough) (#101)
  2. Brené Brown on Vulnerability and Home Run TED Talks (#100)
  3. How to Build a World-Class Network in Record Time (#99)
  4. The "Wizard" of Hollywood, Robert Rodriguez (#98)
  5. Naval Ravikant — The Person I Call Most for Startup Advice (#97)
  6. "5-Bullet Friday" — 5 Things I've Been Loving, Using, and Reading
  7. Kevin Kelly on Artificial Intelligence and Designer Babies (#96)
  8. What Evernote's Phil Libin Learned from Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, and Others (#95)

July 2015

  1. Tara Brach on Meditation and Overcoming FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) (#94)
  2. Jane McGonigal on Getting More Done with Less Stress and The Health Benefits of Gaming (#93)
  3. Maria Popova on Being Interesting, Creating More Time in a Day, And How to Start A Successful Blog (#92)
  4. Charles Poliquin on Strength Training, Shredding Body Fat, and Increasing Testosterone and Sex Drive (#91)
  5. Peter Diamandis on Disrupting the Education System, The Evolution of Healthcare, and Building a Billion-Dollar Business (#90)
  6. Laird Hamilton, The King of Big Wave Surfing (Plus: Gabrielle Reece and Brian MacKenzie) (#89)
  7. General Stan McChrystal on Anti-War Americans, Pushing Your Limits, and The Three Military Tests You Should Take (#88)
  8. Sam Harris on Daily Routines, The Trolley Scenario, and 5 Books Everyone Should Read (#87)
  9. General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness (#86)

June 2015

  1. Whitney Cummings on Turning Pain Into Creativity (#84)
  2. The Maverick of Brain Optimization (#83)
  3. Sam Kass on Reinventing Yourself and Baptism by Fire (#82)
  4. An Unusual $100,000 Birthday Present (Plus: Free Round-Trip Anywhere in the World)
  5. The Rags to Riches Philosopher: Bryan Johnson's Path to $800 Million (#81)
  6. Learn How to Triple Your Reading Speed in 5 Minutes (Seriously) [VIDEO]

May 2015

  1. Chris Sacca on Being Different and Making Billions (#79)
  2. How to Build a Large Audience From Scratch (And More) (#78)
  3. The Morning Cocktail I Drink Instead Of Coffee
  4. Is It Time to Kill Sacred Cows In Your Relationship? (#77)
  5. How to Make Lock Picks Out of Common Household Items
  6. Rick Rubin on Cultivating World-Class Artists (Jay Z, Johnny Cash, etc.), Losing 100+ Pounds, and Breaking Down The Complex (#76)
  7. How Beginners Can (Sometimes) Beat Pros at Poker
  8. How Facebook's #30 Employee Quickly Built 4 Businesses and Gained 40 Pounds with Weight Training (#75)
  9. Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
  10. How One Computer Hacker Conquered Online Dating, Opens Locked Cars, and More (#74)

April 2015

  1. The Random Show – Booze, Biohacking, and Bloody Messes (on Camera)
  2. FINALLY — Tim Ferriss TV is here, plus Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Glitch Mob
  3. How to Defy Gravity on Earth (And Win $2,000+ Worth of Prizes)
  4. Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (#72)
  5. Hit Filmmaker Jon Favreau's Techniques and Routines (#71)
  6. How to Earn Your Freedom…And A Motorcycle Ride Across China?
  7. Inside the Mind of Glenn Beck, You Find…Walt Disney and Orson Welles? (#69)
  8. Lazy: A Manifesto

March 2015

  1. Amanda Palmer on How to Fight, Meditate, and Make Good Art (#67)
  2. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide – Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More (#66)
  3. Optimizing Investing, Blood, Hormones, and Life (Podcast Double-Header: #63 and #65)
  4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of CrossFit (#64)

February 2015

  1. Productivity Secrets of a Master DJ (Meditation, Morning Routines, and More) (#62)
  2. Matt Mullenweg on Polyphasic Sleep, Tequila, and Building Billion-Dollar Companies (#61)
  3. Tim Ferriss Interviews Arnold Schwarzenegger on Psychological Warfare (And Much More) (#60)

January 2015

  1. How to Create a Blockbuster Podcast (#58 & #59)
  2. How to Be In My Next Big Book
  3. How to Think Like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (#56)
  4. Pavel Tsatsouline on the Science of Strength and the Art of Physical Performance (#55)
  5. What My Morning Journal Looks Like
  6. Are We Really 10% Human and 90% Bacteria? Exploring The Microbiome… (#54)

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December 2014

  1. Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief (#52 & #53)
  2. Looking for a Change in 2015? How About Becoming My Managing Editor?
  3. What I'd Add To The 4-Hour Workweek for 2015 (And Much More) (#49 & #51, plus bonus episode #44)
  4. Dr. Peter Attia on Life-Extension, Drinking Jet Fuel, Ultra-Endurance, Human Foie Gras, and More (#50)
  5. Human Foie Gras — A Golden Opportunity
  6. Writing with the Master – The Magic of John McPhee
  7. Marc Goodman, FBI Futurist, on High-Tech Crime and How to Protect Yourself (#48)
  8. Bryan Callen on Eating Corgis (Yes, The Dogs) and Improving Creativity (#47)

November 2014

  1. The Random Show: Hating Tech, Hidden Japanese Gems, Sexual Awkwardness, and More (#46)
  2. Nick Ganju on The Majesty of Ping Pong, Poker, and How to Write Hit Songs (#45)
  3. Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet (#43)
  4. Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking (#41 & #42)

October 2014

  1. The Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies
  2. Andrew Zimmern on Simple Cooking Tricks, Developing TV, and Addiction (#40)
  3. Is Beet Juice Really a Performance-Enhancing "Drug"? Digging In…
  4. Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds (#39)
  5. The $5,000 Secret Santa and Other Goodies
  6. NOBNOM Winners and Other Updates
  7. Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money (#37 & #38)
  8. Ramit Sethi on Persuasion and Turning a Blog Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Business (#33 & #34)
  9. Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE) on the Magic of Thinking BIG (#35)
  10. How to Travel to 20+ Countries…While Building a Massive Business in the Process

September 2014

  1. The Tim Ferriss Show: Tracy DiNunzio on Rapid Growth and Rapid Learning (#30, #31 and #32)
  2. What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (#29)
  3. Can You Rewire Your Brain In Two Weeks? One Man's Attempt…
  4. Interview with Peter Thiel, Billionaire Investor and Company Creator (#28)

August 2014

  1. The Tim Ferriss Show: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World? (#25, #26 & #27)
  2. The Art of Strategic Laziness
  3. The Random Show — Gut Bacteria, Meditation, Startups, and More (#24)
  4. The Truth About "Homeopathic" Medicine (#23)
  5. Ed Catmull, President of Pixar — Steve Jobs, Stories, and Lessons Learned (#22)
  6. How to Never Check Luggage Again
  7. Tim Ferriss Rethinks Email
  8. The Tim Ferriss Show: Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park – Making Art, Making Music, Getting To 60+ Million Albums (#21)

July 2014

  1. What Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, and Bob Dylan Have In Common
  2. The 30-Day Challenge: No Booze, No Masturbating (NOBNOM)
  3. Dan Carlin — Hardcore History, Building Podcasts, Creativity, and More (#20)
  4. How to Gather 100,000 Emails in One Week (Includes Successful Templates, Code, Everything You Need)
  5. How to Learn Any Language in Record Time and Never Forget It
  6. Two E-Mail Autoresponses That Work
  7. The Tim Ferriss Show: James Altucher on How to Say "No," Fail Better, and Build Businesses (#18)
  8. The Tim Ferriss Show: Joe De Sena on Grit, Endurance, and Building Empires (#16)

June 2014

  1. Neil Strauss — Author of The Game and 7 New York Times Bestsellers (#15)
  2. Why Can't You Draw The Face of a Penny? Understand the Reason and Learn Spanish Twice as Fast
  3. The Tim Ferriss Show: Sam Harris, PhD, on Spirituality, Neuroscience, Meditation, and More (#14)
  4. Not-To-Do Lists, Drugs, and Other Productivity Tricks
  5. Dr. Rhonda Patrick on Life Extension, Performance, and Much More (#12)
  6. The Tim Ferriss Show: Brian Koppelman, Co-writer/Producer of Rounders, The Illusionist, Ocean's Thirteen (#10)
  7. Need to Borrow Some Strength Today? Watch This.

May 2014

  1. The Tim Ferriss Show: Chase Jarvis, Master Photographer (#8)
  2. The Tim Ferriss Show: Stephen Dubner, Co-Author of Freakonomics (#7)
  3. Why Not Hug Strangers? – A Video Experiment
  4. The Tim Ferriss Podcast: Filmmaker Jason Silva (#5)
  5. The Obstacle Is The Way — The Tim Ferriss Book Club, Book #4
  6. The Tim Ferriss Podcast: Ryan Holiday (#4)
  7. The Random Show, Episode 24: Porn Attacks, Eating Insect Protein, Tech Finds, and More

April 2014

  1. The Tim Ferriss Podcast: Kelly Starrett and Dr. Justin Mager (#3)
  2. The Tim Ferriss Podcast is Live! Here Are Episodes 1 and 2
  3. Are Saunas the Next Big Performance-Enhancing "Drug"?

March 2014

  1. 12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need
  2. The Art of Learning: The Tool of Choice for Top Athletes, Traders, and Creatives

February 2014

  1. My Latest Obsessions: Voodoo Floss, Pu-Erh Tea, Electronic Gypsy Music, and More
  2. How to Cure Anxiety — One Workaholic's Story, Six Techniques That Work
  3. Preventing Burnout: A Cautionary Tale
  4. Win the Laptops I Used to Write The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body…and More (EFF Benefit)
  5. The Random Show, Episode 23 — New Year's Resolutions, Firearms, Start-up Finds, Zelda, and Obscene Thoughts on Grey Hairs
  6. How to Write a Bestselling Book This Year — The Definitive Resource List and How-To Guide

January 2014

  1. Potential Tactics for Defeating Cancer — A Toolkit in 1,000 Words
  2. Ten Popular Diets — Which Work and Which Are Hype?

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December 2013

  1. One Month with No Phone — How to Go Phoneless in a Major US City
  2. The Odd (And Effective) Routines of Famous Minds like Beethoven, Maya Angelou, and Francis Bacon
  3. Daily Rituals — The Tim Ferriss Book Club, Book #2
  4. The Ugly New York Times Bestseller — The Creative Process in Action
  5. Jony Ive’s Secret Coffee Ritual
  6. Assets and Fun for "The Tim Ferriss Experiment" — Please Share!
  7. Premiere! The Tim Ferriss Experiment – Live Tweeting, Giveaways, Q&A, Behind-The-Scenes, and More

November 2013

  1. Premiere TV Episode! "The Tim Ferriss Experiment" — Online for Free
  2. The Tim Ferriss Book Club Launches — Book #1: Vagabonding
  3. How to Dominate Any Tradeshow, and Why Even Solo Entrepreneurs Should Try
  4. "Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)

October 2013

  1. The Tim Ferriss Experiment (TFX) TV Trailer
  2. How to Create a $4,000 Per Month Muse in 5 Days (Plus: How to Get Me As Your Mentor)
  3. You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves
  4. Announcing: "The Tim Ferriss Experiment" on Primetime TV (And How to Join Me)

September 2013

  1. Marc Ecko's 10 Rules for Getting "Influencer" Attention
  2. You'd Like to Be an Angel Investor? Here's How You Can Invest In My Deals…
  3. How to Get National Press With No Budget (Plus: One Year of Mentorship from Alexis Ohanian)
  4. From Dot-Com Zero to Hero: One Man's Story
  5. Going From Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur — A Challenge
  6. The BitTorrent Strikes Back: The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook Goes Loose
  7. An Ideal Day (or Weekend) in San Francisco – 16 Fun and Weird Activities

August 2013

  1. Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks
  2. Burning Man Winners and Charity:Water Finalists (Please Vote!)
  3. 28 Festivals and 8 Reasons They Can Change Your Life
  4. 28 Festivals and 8 Reasons They Can Change Your Life (Plus: Free Burning Man Tickets!)
  5. The Random Show, Episode 22 – Home Defense, Start-ups, Raccoon Throwing, Public Stock Investing, and Mail-Order Urine
  6. How Risk-Averse Entrepreneurs Succeed: Low-Cost Testing Using Reddit, PayPal, In-Person Pressure, and More
  7. How to Travel to Exotic, Expensive Cities on $50 a Day

July 2013

  1. Why (and How) Creative People Need to Say "No"
  2. Ketosis and Athletic Performance: More Than Fat Loss
  3. A $36,000 Birthday Gift (Plus: Free Roundtrip Anywhere in the World)
  4. Spearhead Capital: Looking for *ONE* Fast-Growing Start-Up to Take Mainstream
  5. How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules

June 2013

  1. The Fantastic Mr. Feynman
  2. 4HWW Readers' Libraries in Nepal, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka Open Their Doors!
  3. Going from Obese to Bikini Body — Briana Case Study (Plus: New Tools, 4-Hour Body Group)
  4. Tim Ferriss Interviews Neil Strauss, 7x New York Times Bestselling Author, on the Creative Process
  5. The Quarterly Goodies — Hacker Credit Cards, Alpha BRAIN, Refuel Bars, and More
  6. The Random Show, Episode 21: Smart Drugs, Bitcoin, Apps, Fish Taint, and More
  7. 4-Hour Parenting – plus – Sports Doping

May 2013

  1. Feel Good Friday: Readers, You Did This — 21,559 Students Helped So Far…
  2. A How-To Guide: Accelerated Learning for Accelerated Times
  3. The Magic of DonorsChoose — Join Me and Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian for Dinner
  4. How To Gain 20 Pounds In 28 Days: The Extreme Muscle Building Secrets of UFC Fighters
  5. How To Lose 20–30 Pounds In 5 Days: The Extreme Weight Cutting and Rehydration Secrets of UFC Fighters
  6. A Few Thoughts on Content Creation, Monetization, and Strategy
  7. Jedi Mind Tricks: How to Get Loved Ones to Lose Weight

April 2013

  1. Case Studies: How to Build Online Businesses That Gross $250,000+ Per Month
  2. Announcements: Live Q&A Today, $10,000 Memory Challenge, Etc.
  3. How to Create a Viral Book Trailer (or Get 1,000,000 Views for Almost Anything)
  4. How to (Really) Make $1,000,000 Selling E-Books – Real-World Case Studies
  5. The First-Ever Quantified Self Notes (Plus: LSD as Cognitive Enhancer?)

March 2013

  1. The Alchemy of Writing — More Tips from a Pro
  2. The Alchemy of Writing — Tips from a Non-Fiction and Fiction Pro
  3. A World Map of Flavors – 36 Regions, 36 Herb and Spice Combinations
  4. My First Quarterly Shipment! (Plus: Live Event 3/28, Merrell Winners)
  5. Announcing the "4 Fundamentals", Merrell Partnership/Giveaway, and Live Q&A

February 2013

  1. The 4-Hour Chef Wins — Gourmand Awards "Best in the World"
  2. The 4-Hour Chef Trailer Competition – Winner and Honorable Mentions
  3. How to Memorize a Shuffled Deck of Cards in Less Than 60 Seconds (Plus: $10,000 Challenge)
  4. Case Study: What Does a Real 4-Hour Workweek Look Like…With a Family?

January 2013

  1. The Diet of UFC Champion Georges St-Pierre: How He Transformed Himself
  2. How to Get The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook Free — Only Until 10am PST (1pm EST)
  3. Amazon "Lightning Box" Deal — 9am-1pm EST Only (Plus: $299 Course for Free)
  4. Is The 4-Hour Body a Scam? Tracking 3,500 People to Find Out
  5. Random Show, Episode 20 – Dog Aerobics, Start-ups, Meditation, Comic Books, and New Year's Resolutions
  6. How to Travel Through 20+ Countries with Free Room and Board
  7. The Dangers of Hero Worship: An Open Letter from Ryan Hall
  8. Watch "MeatEater" This Sunday at 9pm ET/PT

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December 2012

  1. 11 X-mas Gifts That Can Change Your Life (Or Save Your Ass)
  2. Hacking Kickstarter: How to Raise $100,000 in 10 Days (Includes Successful Templates, E-mails, etc.)
  3. How to Finally Play the Guitar: 80/20 Guitar and Minimalist Music
  4. How to Become a Great (Food) Writer: The Big Secret

November 2012

  1. The 4-Hour Chef is a NYT, WSJ, and USA Today Bestseller! But There is Mystery and Intrigue…
  2. The 4-Hour Chef Launch — Marketing/PR Summary of Week One
  3. Food Photography Made Easy — Simple Tricks and Pro Tips from The 4-Hour Chef
  4. What to Do If Boycotted by 1,000+ Bookstores? Open Your Own Bookstores, Of Course.
  5. Meet The New York City Food Marathon: 26.2 Dishes in 26 Locations in 24 Hours
  6. The 4-Hour Chef is LIVE — Dr. Oz, NYC Cabs, TaskRabbit, London, and More
  7. The 4-Hour Chef is Available 24 Hours Early… in Panera Bread?!?
  8. The 4-Hour Chef – Samples from All Sections (Plus: $5 Amazon Gift Cards)
  9. The Magic of Thinking Big – How to Break World Records in Times Square
  10. The Magic of Apprenticeship — A How-To Guide
  11. The Value of Aggression — Ode to Dan Gable
  12. The 4-Hour Chef Cinematic Trailer – Plus $2,500 Video Competition
  13. The 4-Hour Chef Trailer – Book Overview
  14. The 4-Hour Chef – The First Chapter and a Publishing First

October 2012

  1. The 4-Hour Body Million-Pound March (and $1,000,000 Pot)
  2. The 4-Hour Everything: How Tim Ferriss Tracks His Life's Data (Interview with Wired's Clive Thompson)
  3. Stoicism for Modern Stresses: 5 Lessons from Cato
  4. How to Shuck an Oyster – The Nation's #1 Shucker Shares His Technique

September 2012

  1. Always Be Closing: Y Combinator and The Art of the Pitch
  2. The Random Show – Episode 18 – Start-ups, Restaurants, Marriage, and…Sexual Performance?
  3. The Manhattan Project to End Fad Diets
  4. How to Write and Promote New York Times Bestsellers: Tim Ferriss and Jack Canfield

August 2012

  1. How Bestseller Lists Work…and Introducing the Amazon Monthly 100
  2. Understanding the Dangers of "Ego-Depletion"
  3. The 4-Hour Chef Media – Announcement
  4. The 4-Hour Chef 8-Second Book Trailer — Finals

July 2012

  1. How I Blog — The 21 WordPress Plugins That Keep Me Sane
  2. Another Unusual $100,000 Birthday Present (Plus: Free Round-Trip Anywhere in the World)
  3. The 5 Top-Performing American Apparel Ads, and How They Get PR for Free (NSFW)
  4. How to Lose 100 Pounds on The Slow-Carb Diet – Real Pics and Stories
  5. A $50,000 Benevolent Bribe: Is Today The Day You Finally Build Your Business?
  6. The Council That Kicked The Hornet's Nest — Why TODAY Matters for Start-Ups

June 2012

  1. The 4-Hour Chef: The 8-Second Book Trailer (And Competition)
  2. How to Take Intelligent Career Risk (and Win Mentoring from Reid Hoffman, Chairman of LinkedIn)
  3. Exclusive Warren Buffett – A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers
  4. Announcing "The Influencer 100," Apps, and Start-up News

May 2012

  1. The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote
  2. Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned
  3. 10 Uncommon "Superfoods" from the World of Ultra-Endurance
  4. Neil Gaiman – The Best Commencement Speech You May Ever Hear (20 Minutes)

April 2012

  1. Tim Ferriss: A Day In The Life
  2. How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?
  3. Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
  4. Playing B-Ball with Obama: 6 Steps to Crossing Anything Off Your Bucket List

March 2012

  1. Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work
  2. "The Start-up's Secret Weapon: Contests" or "How to Turn $100K into $12,000,000"

February 2012

  1. The Top 10 Fiction Books for Non-Fiction Addicts
  2. Beyond X PRIZE: The 10 Best Crowdsourcing Tools and Technologies
  3. Paulo Coelho: How I Write

January 2012

  1. Housecleaning: Be Featured in The 4-Hour Chef, Random Links, and Contest Updates
  2. How to Become an Effective CEO: Chief Emotions Officer
  3. Tim Ferriss Getting His Ass Kicked + How to Survive a Physical Attack (Video Series)
  4. No Brown M&M's! David Lee Roth and the Power of Checklists

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December 2011

  1. Christmas Deals from Start-ups
  2. Foundation: Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss
  3. How to "Age" Your Wine 5 Years in 20 Seconds: Hyperdecanting
  4. The 4-Hour Chef iPad App: iOS from Amazon Publishing? (Plus: Free Roundtrip Anywhere in the World)
  5. The Painless Path to Endurance
  6. The 4-Hour Chef – Cheat Day Sample: Tequila Hot Chocolate

November 2011

  1. The 4-Hour Chef – The First Kindle Fire Book Teaser (Want a Free Kindle Fire?)
  2. Random Show – Episode 17 – Start-ups, Investing, and Pickled Vegetables
  3. Filling the Void: Thoughts on Learning and Karma
  4. The Truth About Abs: How To Make $1,000,000 Per Month with Digital Products (Plus: Noah Kagan results)

October 2011

  1. How to Ski Powder – 15 Tips for Learning in 24 Hours
  2. Belle Vue Clinic, Preventable Medical Disasters, and Stoic Lessons

September 2011

  1. 8 Steps to Getting What You Want… Without Formal Credentials
  2. How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
  3. Engineering a “Muse” – Volume 4: Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses

August 2011

  1. Conversation with Pro Photographer Chase Jarvis: Creating a Life of Creativity, Income, and Sweaty Palms
  2. The 4-Hour Chef: The New Book with Amazon
  3. Housekeeping: Getting in Front of VIPs and Building Schools

July 2011

  1. My Unusual $20,000 Birthday Gift (Plus: Free Roundtrip Anywhere in the World)
  2. How to Bulletproof (or Unf*ck) Your Mac
  3. The Random Show, Episode 16 – Bachelor Party Edition (NSFW)
  4. Looking to the Dietary Gods: Eating Well According to the Ancients

June 2011

  1. Free $1,000 Travelocity Voucher and $10,000 Spots to Kimono
  2. What's Your Start-up's "Bus Count"? 7 Myths of Entrepreneurship and Programming
  3. The Finals: Scholarship for Opening the Kimono

May 2011

  1. The Shortcut to the Shortcut: The 4 Key Principles of The 4-Hour Body
  2. How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
  3. The Random Show, Episode 14/15 – Bourbon, Photography, iPhone Apps, and Start-ups
  4. Semi-Finals: Scholarship for Opening the Kimono

April 2011

  1. Five Minutes on Friday, Six Minutes on Saturday: Listen to Music, Save Japan; Email a Company, Save 200,000 Sharks
  2. How to Bribe People to Start Companies (Plus: Kimono Event Scholarship)
  3. The Non-Overnight Success: How Twitter Became Twitter
  4. Built to Sell — Making Your Company Sellable
  5. Opening the Kimono® Event
  6. The Making of FUBU — An Interview with Daymond John

March 2011

  1. Behind the Scenes: How to Make a Movie Trailer for Your Product (or Book)
  2. The Slow-Carb Diet Cookbooks — Available for 72 Hours
  3. ‘Unrealistic’ Athletic Goals: Why and How to Pursue Them
  4. So, You Want to Be a Writer? Read This First.
  5. 12 Lessons Learned While Marketing “The 4-Hour Body”
  6. Engineering a “Muse” – Volume 3: Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses

February 2011

  1. "Good News! You Don’t Die."
  2. How to Master the Art of Seasoning: 5 Tips for Reinventing the Slow-Carb Diet
  3. Feeling Stuck? Read This…

January 2011

  1. Random Episode 87 (or not): Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss talk knives, iPhone apps, flutes, and dog handling
  2. From First TV to Dr. Oz – How to Get Local Media…Then National Media
  3. Housecleaning and Clarifications: Blog Content, 4HB Corrections, Competition Winners, Slow-Carb Mistakes, and More
  4. Spot Reduction Revisited: Removing Stubborn Thigh Fat
  5. The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives

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December 2010

  1. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU…
  2. The Value of Self-Experimentation [Plus: Extreme Videos – Do Not Try This At Home]
  3. Engineering a "Muse" – Volume 2: Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses
  4. The 4-Hour Body – Sample Chapter and Full Table of Contents
  5. The 4-Hour Body – Official Movie Trailer

November 2010

  1. Engineering a "Muse": Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses
  2. How to Become a Model Photographer in Brazil
  3. How It Works: Clinton's "Reality Distortion Field" Charisma
  4. 8 Exotic Destinations You Can Afford
  5. How to E-mail Virtual Assistants (or Any Assistants): Proven Templates

October 2010

  1. 20 Things I've Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years
  2. How Tim Ferriss Makes Money (and Other Things)
  3. The Experimental Life: An Introduction to Michel de Montaigne
  4. Have a Good Eye for Ads? Try the (Lucrative) 4-Hour Body Experiment…
  5. How to Buy a Round-the-World Plane Ticket (That Kicks Ass)
  6. Zen, Tea, and the Art of Life Management

September 2010

  1. The New Book Unveiled: The 4-Hour Body (4HB)
  2. How Tucker Max Got Rejected by Publishing and Still Hit #1 New York Times
  3. Experience Zero Gravity with James Cameron, Director of Avatar (and Me, Among Others)
  4. How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days)
  5. Discovering Kindness In The Storm

August 2010

  1. Blogging by Numbers: How to Create Headlines That Get Retweeted
  2. How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin and Death of Traditional Publishing
  3. How to Travel 12 Countries with No Baggage Whatsoever
  4. The Big Bang: Blow-out Launch Party in NYC, Next Tuesday
  5. Random Episode 12 – Favorite Design Sites, Skydiving, New Books, and More
  6. The Land Rush: 48 Hours to Claim $4,000,000 in Prizes

July 2010

  1. From CEOs to Opera Singers – How to Harness the "Superstar Effect"
  2. My Unusual $100,000 Birthday Present (Plus: Free Round-Trip Anywhere in the World)
  3. The Way of the Dodo — How to Sell 10,000 iPad Cases at $60 Each (and Other Lessons Learned)
  4. The 4-Hour Body is NOW OUT – Live Q&A Today, New Trailer, Free Books, and Much More
  5. How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA – II

June 2010

  1. How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA
  2. Why Are You Single? Perhaps It's The Choice Effect
  3. Random Episode 11: The Future of Digg, New Favorites, and More

May 2010

  1. Tim Ferriss Scam! Practical Tactics for Dealing with Haters
  2. The Difference: Living Well vs. Doing Well
  3. How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment

April 2010

  1. Public Speaking – How I Prepare Every Time

March 2010

  1. Random Episode 10: Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss on Food, Top Picks, and More
  2. Why Grow? and Other Wisdom from 37Signals

February 2010

  1. 5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home
  2. Random Show Episode 13 – Kevin and Tim on Trampolines, Apps, and A**holes

January 2010

  1. Random Episode 8 – 2010 Resolutions with Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss
  2. The First Time Online – Enjoy While You Can
  3. Thank You, Facebook Bankruptcy, and Late Christmas Presents

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December 2009

  1. Cold Remedy: 18 Real-World Lifestyle Design Case Studies (Now It’s Your Turn)
  2. Cold Remedy: Free Flights Anywhere in the World
  3. How I Did It: From $7 an Hour to Coaching Major League Baseball MVPs
  4. How to Create a Global Phenomenon for Less Than $10,000
  5. Random – Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss' Top 3 Travel Spots
  6. No More Excuses – How to Make an Extra $100,000 in the Next 6 Months
  7. 13 X-Mas Gifts That Can Change (or Save) Your Life

November 2009

  1. The Benefits of Pissing People Off
  2. 4-Hour Body Promo – Half-Naked Girls, Erections, and Stickers
  3. Let Me Promote Your Product (or Location) to Millions

October 2009

  1. How to Hold Your Breath Like David Blaine, World Record Holder (and Now, Me)
  2. How to Breakdance 101: Unleash Your Inner B-Boy
  3. Sneak Peek: The New and Expanded 4-Hour Workweek is Here
  4. Random Episode 6: How Kevin Rose and Glenn McElhose Got Scammed in China – Ha!
  5. The Best Decline Letter of All Time: Edmund Wilson
  6. Gout: The Missing Chapter from Good Calories, Bad Calories
  7. New Data: The 10 Worst Airlines in the US
  8. Tonight: 400 Free Tickets to "Waiting for Superman"

September 2009

  1. Finally: The End of Food Journals? The iPhone FoodScanner Arrives
  2. Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide
  3. Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker

August 2009

  1. Random Episode 5: The Bloody, Filthy Travel Edition
  2. How to Respond to Criticism — Learning from Dr. King
  3. Random 4: Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose on Y-Combinator, Language Learning and More
  4. Google Website Optimizer Case Study: Daily Burn, 20%+ Improvement
  5. Dean Kamen – Don't Tell Me It's Impossible

July 2009

  1. Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
  2. The Big Question: Are You Better Than Yesterday?
  3. Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief
  4. Facebook Bankruptcy Template

June 2009

  1. How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
  2. THE NEXT BOOK: From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman
  3. The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System
  4. Exclusive First Look: SU.PR – Stumble Upon's New Traffic Builder
  5. 7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat
  6. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books

May 2009

  1. How to Balance a Fork and Spoon on a Toothpick
  2. Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics – Guest Post by Eric Ries
  3. Tim Ferriss + Kevin Rose – Random Episode 2
  4. Start-up Strategy: To Change the Game, Change the Economics of How It's Played
  5. Vibram Five Fingers Shoes: The Barefoot Alternative

April 2009

  1. On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
  2. Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi on Blogging Techniques and Self-Publishing vs. Big Publishers
  3. Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
  4. Design Competition: Want to Design My Next Cover?
  5. Loic Le Meur and Tim Ferriss Discuss E-mail, Entrepreneurship, and Practical Philosophies

March 2009

  1. Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss Discuss Angel Investing and Naming Companies
  2. The Psychology of Automation: Building a Bulletproof Personal-Finance System
  3. Tweet to Beat: Let Me Up the Ante (Plus: Vietnam School Video and Pics)
  4. The Tweet to Beat: Paying $3 Per Twitter Follower
  5. How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders

February 2009

  1. How to Buy Domain Names Like a Pro: 10 Tips from the Founder of PhoneTag.com
  2. How to Use Twitter Without Twitter Owning You – 5 Tips
  3. Jedi Mind Tricks: How to Get $250,000 of Advertising for $10,000
  4. Ethical Meat vs. Meat Hype: A Look at "All Natural", "Grass-Fed" and Other Half-Truths
  5. Napoleon on News and Information Management (Plus: Video on Outsourcing E-mail and More)
  6. How to Build an Upside-Down Fire: The Only Fireplace Method You’ll Ever Need

January 2009

  1. Finding the Perfect Office Chair: Aeron vs. Swiss Ball vs. the FBI's Pick…
  2. How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months
  3. Rethinking Investing – Part 3 – Spotting Mistakes in Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer
  4. The Prescription for Self-Doubt: Watch This Video
  5. The Power of Less: Changing Behavior with Leo Babauta
  6. Measuring What Really Works on Twitter: Post Timing and Headlines
  7. Things I've Learned and Loved in 2008

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December 2008

  1. How to Feel Like the Incredible Hulk in 2009
  2. Digital Cribs: Homes with Practical (and Impractical) Technologies (Plus: Victorinox Winner)
  3. Pavel: 80/20 Powerlifting and How to Add 110+ Pounds to Your Lifts
  4. Book Launch 101: Media Hijinks, Amazon Timing, and VIP Treatment for You
  5. Live Post-Show Q&A at 12 midnight ET and 12 midnight PT
  6. BIG NEWS and Sneak Peek – Tim Ferriss TV Show Debut 12/4

November 2008

  1. The Entertainment Gathering – How to Hang with Bezos, Yo-Yo Ma, and More
  2. How to Store Sperm in 4 Steps – Just in Case
  3. Tesla Roadster Test Drive: Adrenaline, Videos, Photos
  4. Quantum of Solace 007 – Free James Bond Tickets from Me and American Apparel!
  5. How to Surf Life: Attorney Turned Surf Guru
  6. Rethinking Investing – Part 2

October 2008

  1. How Not to Use a Lawyer – A Personal Case Study (Plus: Protocol Marketing correction)
  2. Rethinking Investing: Common-Sense Rules for Uncommon Times
  3. 9 Tricks for Getting a Table (and Being a VIP) at Hot Restaurants
  4. Investment Series Preview: The "Good Bye and F__k You" Letter
  5. Deadline in Less Than 7 Hours – An Important Bribe (Plus: Happiness Research for Economic Crashes)
  6. From Tesla Motors to the "Patriot Hack" – Martin Eberhard on Protecting Your Privacy Online
  7. Two Short Videos – How and Why to Be Unreasonable, The Art of Tweaking
  8. Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression: Making the Rollercoaster Work for You

September 2008

  1. Rethinking the Office – Dutch Design (Plus: Pics of My Home Office)
  2. Why Language Classes Don't Work: How to Cut Classes and Double Your Learning Rate (Plus: Madrid Update)
  3. How to Never Forget Anything Again
  4. Rolf Potts Q&A: The Art of Long-term World Travel… and Travel Writing
  5. Random and Fun Announcements: Keynote with Mike Shinoda, Inc. 500, Madrid Party, More…
  6. Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King

August 2008

  1. The Fortune 500 4-Hour Workweek: Multiplying Output in Groups (Plus: Downloadable Checklists)
  2. Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too
  3. 4HWW Cover Story in Men's Journal (Plus: Be in a Movie)
  4. The Philosophies of Work: A Conversation with Derek Sivers of CD Baby

July 2008

  1. 12+ Gems of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Plus: 200 Tweets – My Thoughts on Practical Twitter Use)
  2. Krill Oil 48x Better Than Fish Oil?
  3. Push vs. Pull Processes
  4. Escaping the Amish – Part 2
  5. Escaping the Amish – Part 1
  6. Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More)
  7. Mom-and-Pop Multinationals: How to Go Global
  8. How to “Peel” Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling
  9. Swimming the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River

June 2008

  1. The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months
  2. Why Bigger Goals = Less Competition (Plus: Major Media Opp)
  3. A Day in Pictures – San Francisco (Plus: Reader Survey)
  4. Picking Warren Buffett's Brain: Notes from a Novice
  5. Dr. Stewart Friedman on "Time Bind" vs. Psychological Interference and More
  6. Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less than New York – Part 2
  7. Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less than New York
  8. Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers
  9. What Every American Needs to Know (and Do) About FISA Before Wednesday Voting
  10. Preventing Email Bankruptcy: From 1920's Postcards to Video Confessions
  11. How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks

May 2008

  1. The Art of Speed: Conversations with Monster Makers
  2. Time Management Guru-itis: Mark Hurst vs. David Allen and Tim Ferriss
  3. The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 2
  4. The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 1
  5. No Schedules, No Meetings—Enter Best Buy’s ROWE – Part 2
  6. No Schedules, No Meetings–Enter Best Buy's ROWE – Part 1
  7. 5 Tips for E-mailing Busy People
  8. The Worst Food in America (Plus: Sydney Launch Party)
  9. Measuring Social Media ROI: A Case Study (Plus: Tweet to Beat Winners)
  10. Conversation with Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com
  11. Lifestyle Investing: "Compound Time" Like Compound Interest?
  12. Prepping for Warren Buffett: The Art of the Elevator Pitch (Videos)

April 2008

  1. How to Become an Eco Bounty Hunter
  2. Fireside Chat: Google and Tim Ferriss
  3. 4HWW Readers' School in Vietnam Opens its Doors — Time for a Trip?
  4. Video: Tim Ferriss Getting Thrown On His Head
  5. Is Venture Capitalism Dead? Not Yet. Advice from Kleiner Perkins, Hummer Winblad, Shasta Ventures, and Clearstone Venture Partners
  6. Youse, Y'All, and Other Confusions of Modern English
  7. 6 Reasons to Visit the World's Happiest Country
  8. From Al Gore's Chief Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation (Plus: Breakdancing)
  9. The Unusual ROI of Going Green: From Saving to Eco-Friendly Index Funds that Beat the Market
  10. Low-Cost, High-Reward Mini-Retirements: Explore the World with International Volunteering

March 2008

  1. Happy Japanese April Fool's Day!
  2. The Grand Illusion: The Real Tim Ferriss Speaks
  3. How to Use Chopsticks – Become an Expert in 90 Seconds
  4. The Lazarus Philosophy: The Danger of Expectations and The Beauty of Duty
  5. Anti-Snob Wine Appreciation: 7 Tips from Sonoma
  6. 4HWW Invades London Next Week: Pre-orders and Parties
  7. 4 Anti-Cold Cocktails That Work: From Ancient China to German Alcoholics and Modern Labs
  8. Interview with Gina Trapani, Founder of Lifehacker – Morning Routine, Little Hacks with Big Results, and More…
  9. Size Does Matter — Bigger Monitors Save 2.5 Hours a Day
  10. How to Fly Without ID and Skip Lines
  11. GetFriday and the Cost of Success: Exclusive Letter from the CEO
  12. 24 Hours with Tim Ferriss, a Sample Schedule
  13. Redesign Launching
  14. Is Technology Failing to Simplify Life? Tim Ferriss on Economist.com
  15. Real Life Extension: Caloric Restriction or Intermittent Fasting? (Part 2)
  16. Real Life Extension: Caloric Restriction or Intermittent Fasting? (Part 1)

February 2008

  1. Beating the Morning Rush: The 3-Minute "Slow-Carb" Breakfast
  2. Escaping the Entrepreneurial Seizure: Interview with Michael Gerber (Plus: Tim Speaking)
  3. The Science of Fat-Loss: Why a Calorie Isn't Always a Calorie
  4. The Best (and Worst?) Autoresponders of 2007
  5. I WANT YOU to Become the Editor of a NY Times Bestseller and Travel the World for Free
  6. How to Stop Checking E-mail on the Evenings and Weekends
  7. Dating without Speaking? The Weird World of Eye Gazing Parties
  8. 7 Tips for Fighting Information Overload (Plus: Competition Winners)
  9. Learn to Eat Chocolate with the Real Willie Wonka
  10. Insane Superhuman French People
  11. No Girl? How to Express Your Man Crush on Valentine's Day Instead
  12. The Choice-Minimal Lifestyle: 6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm
  13. Seeking Suggestions and Case Studies for New 4HWW (Plus: Twitter Giveaway Winners)
  14. George Carlin vs. Mark Twain – Can You Pick? (plus: Exclusive TV Preview)
  15. The Weekend Retirement Test Drive: Groundhog Day and the Rest of Your Life (Plus: Competition)
  16. Test Driving the Unreleased Audi R8, the Supercar Even Women Fantasize About (Plus: A Favor)

January 2008

  1. Services for a Hyperspeed Life: Faster Speed Dating, 100-Word News Summaries…
  2. Tips for Personal Branding in the Digital Age: Google Insurance, Cache-flow, and More…
  3. Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep
  4. 10 Computer Shortcuts: Obvious to Techies but Unknown to the Rest (Plus: New World Record)
  5. Depression: How You Label Determines How You Feel
  6. The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again
  7. How to Lose 30 Pounds in 24 Hours: The Definitive Guide to Cutting Weight
  8. 5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed
  9. Surfing the World Wide Couch: The Benefits of Urban Camping (Plus: Sweaty Tango)
  10. When "Keeping in Touch" Hurts vs. Helps You (Plus: Win a Virtual Assistant for 2008)
  11. 10 Steps to Become an Email Ninja
  12. Bad News: Higher Income = Less Leisure Time?
  13. From Shanghai to Silicon Valley: 3 Tips for Turning Lack of Resources into Strength
  14. How to Piggyback and Recycle Credit Card Points
  15. What if you protected personal time as "family time"?
  16. The Endless Summer: How to “Winter” Like Old Money

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December 2007

  1. 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon
  2. New Year, New You: How to Travel the World with (or without) Kids in 2008
  3. Why I Started Punching Jerks Again
  4. 10 Random Gifts That Please Almost Everyone
  5. How to Negotiate like an Indian — 7 Rules
  6. How to Get George Bush or the CEO of Google on the Phone
  7. E-mail-Free Fridays and How to Save Your Weekend
  8. The Personal Outsourcing Olympics: Bangalore Butler or American Assistant?
  9. How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek (Plus: My $2,600 Date + Challenge)

November 2007

  1. Lack of Seriousness – The Last Interview with Vonnegut
  2. Ultimate Recycling: Buying Nothing New for One Year?
  3. How to Rent Your Ideas to Fortune 500 Companies: Part II (Plus: Hacking Japan Tips)
  4. A Beginner's Guide: How to Rent Your Ideas to Fortune 500 Companies (Plus: Video)
  5. Don't Like Meditation? Try Gratitude Training. (Plus: Follow-up to "Testing Friends" Firestorm)
  6. How to Test-Drive Friends and Irritate People
  7. Meet the Real Fast and Furious: 130 MPH, Creating Supercars, and Breaking Records
  8. How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor)
  9. Embracing Ignorance as Advantage—a Case Study (Plus: Speaking Nov. 5th and 10th)

October 2007

  1. How I Prostitute Myself (and Other Options for You)
  2. The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen (and Weapons of Mass Distraction)
  3. What Happens When an Agnostic Follows the Bible Literally for One Year?
  4. The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?
  5. LitLiberation: How to Travel the World–and Get a Personal Assistant–for Free

September 2007

  1. The Top 5 Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers/Writers (Plus: Video of Me Kissing a Hairy "Coo")
  2. How to Resurrect Your High School Spanish… or Any Language (Plus: Be on the CBS Early Show!)
  3. Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment
  4. The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades
  5. How Much Does Your Commute Really Cost You? Calculate It… Then Kill It?
  6. How to Survive a Physical Attack: Tips from a Top UFC Trainer for Escaping and Attacking
  7. How to Survive a Physical Attack: Punches and Chokes
  8. Savant School: How to Memorize 10,000 Numbers and More
  9. New Research and a Dirty Truth: Read This Before Chasing the Dollar

August 2007

  1. 5 Pen Tricks from Japan — Uh oh…
  2. The Creativity Elixir: Is Genius On-Demand Possible?
  3. Simplicity and Start-up Alchemy: An Interview with WordPress Creator, Matt Mullenweg (Plus: 4HWW Party in SF and Stunt Competition)
  4. The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now
  5. How to Tie the Perfect Tie… Every Time
  6. Networking Tips from the White House
  7. The 7 Commandments of Blogosphere (and Life) Self-Defense
  8. How Does a Bestseller Happen? A Case Study in Hitting #1 on the New York Times
  9. 3 Bibles for Developing Clear Thinking and Problem Solving (Plus: Get an Original 4HWW Manuscript with Extra Content!)

July 2007

  1. The 10 Most Common Words You Should Stop Using Now
  2. The Best 8 Beverages in the World (Plus: Maui Treehouse and Wild Dog Video)
  3. Mail Your Child to Sri Lanka or Hire Indian Pimps: Extreme Personal Outsourcing
  4. Media Feast and How to Get on TV (Plus: Winner of the Endless Summer!)
  5. The New Face of Philanthropy: How You Can Give $5 Million to Education This Week — Help Needed Now
  6. How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (Plus: How to Negotiate Convertibles and Luxury Treehouses)
  7. How to Change The World with 200 Books — You Decide (plus Finalists of the Endless Summer Competition!)
  8. Paris Hilton Killing Me Softly: How Mass Media Passes Off Crap as News… (plus Learning Annex, 4-Hour Frauds, and More)

June 2007

  1. Leno Book Spoof, Tim vs. Donny Deutsch, and First Live Q&A with Tim
  2. How to Do The Impossible: Create a Paperless Life, Never Check Voicemail Again, Never Return Another Phone Call…
  3. Publishing 2.0: Google and The 4-Hour Workweek Special Arrangement Foreshadows the Future of Books
  4. Robert Scoble Interviews Tim Ferriss: Productivity, E-mail Fasts, GTD, and More…

May 2007

  1. The Endless Summer: How to Travel the World — and Improve It — for Free
  2. How Scoble Absorbs 10,000+ E-mail
  3. How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning
  4. 5 World-Class Vices for Less Than $5
  5. Outsourcing Life and How to Eliminate E-mail Overload
  6. How to Eliminate Junk Mail and E-mail in 30 Minutes… and Red Bull Book Party!

April 2007

  1. From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
  2. What's Your Lifestyle Quotient (LQ)?
  3. How I Work: The 4-Hour Workweek
  4. How to Get a Book Deal with World's Largest Publisher… and Beat Harry Potter?!
  5. Marijuana Trumps Blackberries for Productivity… and Amazon Challenge
  6. Get George Bush to Help You Skip Airport Lines
  7. How to Firewall Attention and Reclaim Time
  8. Mastering the Low-Information Diet… and Pre-order Crisis!
  9. How to Test Your Dream Job II (Case Study: Me as Kentucky Horserace Gambler)
  10. How to Test Your Dream Job (Case Study: Me as Monkey Trainer)
  11. How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
  12. Enjoy the Perfect Shower Anywhere in the World… for $2.96

March 2007

  1. How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires…
  2. Freeing Yourself from the Daily Grind – Tim Interview on Yahoo Travel
  3. How to Check E-mail Twice a Day… And Have Your Boss Accept It
  4. Can You Redesign a Life in 48 Hours? Part II
  5. 4-Hour Case Studies: Can You Redesign a Life in 48 Hours?
  6. New 4-Hour World Record – Joe Ceklovsky
  7. Platinum Card Finally Gets Me
  8. Dozens of Previous Posts are HERE

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