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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
medium-paced
This was a follow up to Bullshit Jobs, to try and see what changes I could make to my own professional life to give myself more time to do the things I actually like to do. This book states that aim, but there are a few issues.
Firstly it's now pretty out of date for a post 2020 world. My contract has always been remote. I think some of the points on liberation would be useful for anyone stuck in a job that used to be remote but is slowly asking for more and more time in office.
The author is in no way self aware about capitalism and his role within it. I had hoped that Bullshit Jobs would inoculate me but that's not really the case.
The most unforgettable moment of this book is when on one page he finishes extolling the benefits of outsourcing personal assistants to poorer countries, and on the next uses a Malcolm X quote to motivate employees to quit their jobs.
On the whole there were some resources mentioned that could be helpful. Mostly it was interesting as a character study on one man, who by all rights should be an AI freak by now but apparently, thankfully, is mostly concerned with psychedelics.
Firstly it's now pretty out of date for a post 2020 world. My contract has always been remote. I think some of the points on liberation would be useful for anyone stuck in a job that used to be remote but is slowly asking for more and more time in office.
The author is in no way self aware about capitalism and his role within it. I had hoped that Bullshit Jobs would inoculate me but that's not really the case.
The most unforgettable moment of this book is when on one page he finishes extolling the benefits of outsourcing personal assistants to poorer countries, and on the next uses a Malcolm X quote to motivate employees to quit their jobs.
On the whole there were some resources mentioned that could be helpful. Mostly it was interesting as a character study on one man, who by all rights should be an AI freak by now but apparently, thankfully, is mostly concerned with psychedelics.