I've read the four-hour-work-week, and at its core the message is that if you work hard and focused towards building a company that actually makes something peo

I've read the four-hour-work-week, and at its core the message is that if you work hard and focused towards building a company that actually makes something people want and structure it in such a way that that you can offload support, etc to third-parties .. well then you can go do something else and macro-manage it in a few hours per week. It takes a lot of effort and focus to get to that point, though. Tim Ferriss is hardly a snake-oil vendor. The marketing of the book might suggest otherwise, but to me he seems like a guy who found a novel way to structure his business and wrote the book as a "here's how I did it". The book's worth picking up if you're reading this site, though comments along the lines of programmers being a dime a dozen (or words to that effect) might put you off.