justinermd 's review for:

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

3.0

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3.5 stars and rounding down. The author's voice is privileged, blunt, and sometimes irritating, but many of the ideas here are helpful no matter where you want to take the trajectory of your life, no matter whether you want to be working for someone else or working for yourself. Repetitive task batching, meeting condensation, negotiation tactics, empowering others to make decisions, lifestyle design, creating plans for yourself and identifying actions that will get you there are all worthwhile things to learn about. Those actionable items all get overshadowed by the bulk of the message regarding offloading tasks to low-paid virtual assistants overseas, ducking out of the office and hoping no one will notice, and prioritizing long-term travel as a means to better yourself. I'll take the latter recommendations with a grain of salt.