Bankers and Bureaucrats vs. Internet Freedom
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
One of the many good tips I got from reading Tim Ferris's gloriously brazen and iconoclastic Four-hour Work Week is the so-called Information Free Diet, where for one week you go without all forms of information - radio, newspapers, basically any ...

Top 10 Ways to Travel Smarter, Safer, and Cheaper
Lifehacker
If that's not your style, you can always try the bundled wrapping method or take some tips from author and super-light traveler Tim Ferriss. 9. Find a Cheap Place to Stay by Renting an Apartment When I planned an awesome last-minute vacation on the ...

Tough Week for Amazon
Publishers Weekly
The company has not been able to offer widespread distribution to authors it has signed to date, and although no major fiction author has signed with the company, a few bestselling nonfiction authors have signed with Amazon including Tim Ferriss and ...

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The Torch: TED Talks: Productive Procrastinating
my.hsj.org
For example, as I am writing this I am currently taking breaks to watch a talk entitled “Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything.” Do not be deceived, this is still procrastinating, yet TED talks relieves me of (most of) the guilty feelings that are ...

SEOmoz (blog)
Are Your Titles Irresistibly Click Worthy & Viral?!
SEOmoz (blog)
For instance, take someone like Tim Ferriss, who has a relatively high amount of followers on Twitter. I can take a link he's shared on Twitter and see how many clicks its received. Not only that, I can look through his entire list of publically ...

Los Angeles Times
Barnes & Noble won't stock books published by Amazon in stores
Los Angeles Times
Last year, for example, the retail giant signed a deal with the popular self-help author Tim Ferriss. All this does not sit well with Barnes & Noble, which operates more than 700 bricks-and-mortar stores and has been trying to compete with Amazon in ...

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'We Are the (Tech) World': Google exec and blogger put together anti-SOPA e ...
San Jose Mercury News
... New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, technologist and venture capital blogger Brad Feld, online social researcher danah boyd, blogger and venture capitalist MG Siegler, angel investor Tim Ferriss, and tech thinker and publisher Tim O'Reilly.

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Is it time for an inbox detox?
Belleville News Democrat
"Timothy Ferris, who wrote 'The 4-Hour Work Week', checks his email twice a day and he's a gazillionaire. Check your email in the longest interval you can possibly stand. Morning, after lunch, mid-afternoon and 15 minutes before you close for the day.

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Is it time for an inbox detox?
Sacramento Bee
"Timothy Ferris, who wrote 'The 4-Hour Work Week', checks his email twice a day and he's a gazillionaire. Check your email in the longest interval you can possibly stand. Morning, after lunch, mid-afternoon and 15 minutes before you close for the day.

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MobyLives
Can James Franco be a bestseller?
MobyLives
Amazon Publishing plans to publish more than 100 books over the next few months, and the list of the company's impressive acquisitions almost always includes Franco alongside actual mega-selling authors Tim Ferriss and Deepak Chopra.

Taking the shot: How to overcome our innate fear of losing
SmartCompany.com.au (blog)
Last year I read Timothy Ferris' book The 4-Hour Work Week. Ferris' aspirational lifestyle aside, what I found really useful about the book were the processes to overcome fear of taking the leap to a new style of career.

Hanoi toddler and b-boy, from a trip Ma.tt and I took in 2009. (Photo: Matt Mullenweg)

The next post will be an interview on writing process with the inimitable Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and Aleph, among many others. His work been translated into 71 languages.

In the meantime, I’d like make a few offers and provide a few updates, as well as a few reading links:

1) Would you like to be in The 4-Hour Chef? I’d love for you to be.

Amazingly, it hit both #1 and #2 (for Kindle version) in cookbooks on Amazon when it was announced, and I think it could be bigger than the last two books. If you’ve had success on The Slow-Carb Diet™, have any before/after pics, and would like to be featured in the book, please click here!

2) Random articles from around the web that readers of this blog might enjoy (or find amusing):

- IBM Worker Email-Free for 4 Years: How to Live without Email
- Interview on travel for the BBC – Tim Ferriss: Forms of Identification
- SF Chronicle interview – Tim Ferriss has strong likes: knives, kettlebells
- Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours

3) The winner of the free roundtrip anywhere in the world, a prize from the Christmas Countdown experiment (intermittent fasting, plus training), is Daniel Kislyuk! There were some fantastic self-trackers, but Daniel gave constant status updates and then wrapped up with a summary post. Daniel, please keep an eye on your e-mail for a note from Amy.

4) For the trip to SF for all-day training with Chip Conley, I’ll let Chip deliver the message himself:

Surprise + Joy = Elation. That’s my new Emotional Equation of the day. Wow, I’m elated by the response to my guest blog and how many insightful entries were submitted. Thank you so much for diving into the deep end of the emotional swimming hole with me. It seems like this book is made for these times. The more externally chaotic the world, the more we yearn for some kind of internal logic.

There were 7 entries (of the first 100 submitted, although I did read every single one of the almost 500) that deserved extra recognition. I will give an Honorable Mention to Divya (1/19 at 7:03 am), Eric Sigfried (1/19 at 8:52 am), Marcus (1/19 at 9:18 am), Susan Dupre (1/19 at 10:19 am) and Ryan (1/19 at 10:50 am).

We have a runner-up whose dissection and use of the Anxiety Balance Sheet impressed me, and that’s Ryan Riegner (1/19 at 9:22 am). Ryan, I believe you live in the NYC area and I’ll be there from Feb 19-25 for a book launch party and media tour. I would like to invite you out to a meal with me while I’m in town. This wasn’t planned to be an extra prize, but your response deserves it. And, our winner is Diego Velasquez (1/19 at 7:54 am) who will be flying out to SF to stay at our luxurious Hotel Vitale for a couple of nights and spend a day learning what it means to be a Chief Emotions Officer. For those who’d like to continue to learn more about Emotional Equations, check out our DIY contest on the Emotional Equations Facebook page, as it gives you another shot at a trip to SF and dinner with me.

Thanks once again for the phenomenal efforts and I hope you enjoy the book if you read it!

Seven ways to convert readers of your company blog into paying customers
GeekWire
Hello Bar – This tool is great for promotion everything from an email newsletter to books like bloggers like Darren Rowse and Tim Ferriss do. Lightbox – A simple, nicely designed pop-up with a sub form lays over the website, lightboxes are very popular ...

WellnessFX Consumer Health Open to Commerce and Expands on West Coast
Sacramento Bee
WellnessFX has an impressive lineup of Board members and advisors to help with its ambitious plans of expanding in the US, including: Mike Maples, partner at Floodgate and investor; Tim Ferriss, author and advisor; Jed Katz, managing director at ...

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WellnessFX Consumer Health Open to Commerce and Expands on West Coast
MarketWatch (press release)
WellnessFX has an impressive lineup of Board members and advisors to help with its ambitious plans of expanding in the US, including: Mike Maples, partner at Floodgate and investor; Tim Ferriss, author and advisor; Jed Katz, managing director at ...

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The Bookseller
Amazon strikes print deal with HMH
The Bookseller
HMH has set up an imprint, New Harvest, to publish the titles when they are launched in autumn 2012, with books to come from authors including Deepak Chopra, Tim Ferriss and James Franco. It will distribute in North America, outside of Amazon's ...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Distribute Amazon Booksmediabistro.com
From e-book to bookstore: Amazon and Houghton Mifflin strike new distribution dealGeekWire

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Well, Here's How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its Books Into Barnes & Noble
paidContent.org
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is creating a new imprint, called New Harvest, for the print versions of the Amazon Publishing East Coast titles—by authors like Tim Ferriss, Penny Marshall, Deepak Chopra and, most recently, James Franco. “Our goal has been, ...

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Forbes
Three Tips on Making Your Book a Bestseller
Forbes
Unless you are a famous person like Bill Clinton or a proven best-selling author like Tim Ferriss, you need to your own marketing grunt work. Authors arrange media appearances and speeches and oversee social media activity on Twitter and Facebook.

Chicago Tribune
Is it time for an inbox detox?
Chicago Tribune
"Timothy Ferris, who wrote 'The 4-Hour Work Week', checks his email twice a day and he's a gazillionaire. Check your email in the longest interval you can possibly stand. Morning, after lunch, mid-afternoon and 15 minutes before you close for the day.

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How To Work From Home And Be Productive, Happy and Fabulous!
Huffington Post (blog)
I mean, not chopping it down to a four hour work week, but just working less. It all boils down to working efficiently. How can you do that? Whether you have a corner in the bedroom or a whole finished basement, make it nice. Make it formal.