It seems funny all of the attention on Tim Ferriss’ best seller, The Four Hour Work Week, which has some very good ideas (no, I haven’t read it yet – but I did listen to his session at South by Southwest) – but many of them seem familiar to me, perhaps because of Bill Jensen’s also popular Simplicity Survival Handbook.
The overlap is definitely there:
Tim: Stop checking email / Bill: How to Delete 75% of your emails
Tim: Fire Your Customers / Bill: How to Say No
Tim Result: Four Hour Work Week / Bill: Do Less…Accomplish More
Certainly there’s more in Tim’s book than just those few items I mention above – but I do find it interesting that both books advocate some of the same actions.
Simplicity: the Book
The overlap is definitely there:
Tim: Stop checking email / Bill: How to Delete 75% of your emails
Tim: Fire Your Customers / Bill: How to Say No
Tim Result: Four Hour Work Week / Bill: Do Less…Accomplish More
Certainly there’s more in Tim’s book than just those few items I mention above – but I do find it interesting that both books advocate some of the same actions.
Simplicity: the Book
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The guys at the Evolving Excellence blog had some good comments on Ferriss’ book as well, from a manufacturing and outsourcing perspective. Typically they are very anti-outsourcing, but “personal outsourcing” is just a tad different! Unfortunately they didn’t mention the effective time savings from having an assistant on the opposite side of the globe. Nice post.
http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/07/personal-waste.html
Ken