I’m already disinterested in this book, so I’m going to be short and sweet in my review.

It’s kind of scatterbrained. It’s almost autobiographical in that it’s all about Tim Ferris and all the awesome things he’s done. He does his best to give lots of advice, some of it is practical and some of it is over the top.

The entire book is based around ways you can do less. Basically you come up with some side project that makes income, then you hand off all responsibility over managing that income on someone else and become a hands-off owner. This allows you to go “live the dream” doing whatever you’d like (he has plenty of advice here too)

He throws in random pickup advice (or “Comfort challenges” as he puts it):
—Maintain eye contact
—Ask for phone numbers
—Say no to everything for a day


There are insightful quotes beginning every chapter, which i did enjoy.

“Meetings are an addictive highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.” — Dave Barry

“If you must play, decide on 3 things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” — Chinese Proverb


He also has some insightful task management tips:

Parkinson’s Law:
Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important.

Ask yourself tough questions:
If you had a heart attack and had to work only 2 hours a day (or week), what would you do?

Prioritize tomorrow’s to do list today.


He shares my despise for distractions, and will avoid meetings at all cost, insisting instead that people send him an email outlining the need for the meeting and producing a schedule for it. This forces people to get around some red tape (which they won’t do if the meeting isn’t absolutely necessary), and makes most meetings avoidable by answering the concerns completely by email.

It was a fast read, and I wasn’t that interested in it, but at least it was exactly what I thought it was when I got into it.