Tim Ferriss Modern Snake-Oil Salesman

[meyert11]

Just read 4 hour work week because Kevin talked so much about him, and had some podcasts. The book is crap. Its basically ways to trick people, and way's he's tricked people. Like how he went into a kickboxing tournament, droped 30 lbs of water weight for weigh in, then got it back up with the help of an MD, and proceeded to push all of his opponents out of the ring, ha! So Sleazy. I bet they changed the rules after he did this. He also talks about using google adwords to see what products would sell, but have the ad go to a dead link because you don't actually have a product yet, ha! Again, sleazy. I'm glad I torrented the book.

[terminator69]

Random thread, but I agree that that book was pretty crappy. Personally, all I saw him talking about was how to fuck other people by getting them to do stuff for you. ie. all this crap about hiring a personal assistant for cheap labor in other countries and in general taking advantage of people. Pretty much a waste of time to read. I've read the first few chapters of the 4 hour body and at least that is a bit better and has some legitimate value.