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I admire Tim as a person. He has done an amazing job making a name for himself. Everything he talks about is ridiculously well-researched. He's not a snakeoil s
by PStamatiou 16y ago
I admire Tim as a person. He has done an amazing job making a name for himself. Everything he talks about is ridiculously well-researched. He's not a snakeoil salesman. For example, I have a copy of his book 4 Hour Body.. the thing is 600 pages, mentions no less than 50 doctors with whom he consulted while writing the book and endless citations that support what he says.
He has personally helped with some aspects of my fundraising process, despite having been right in the middle of his book launch, and taken the time to listen to me and help me through some situations - both with my startup and with health/fitness advice.
- eavc 16y ago"He's not a snakeoil salesman." This is an ironic endorsement. One of his enterprises is called 'Brain-Quicken,' and it's the quintessential snake oil operation. I have no respect for people with the ability of Tim Ferris when they also have the scruples of Tim Ferris.
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- lachyg 16y agoCould you back that up with some evidence? I'm a firm follower in a lot of what Tim says, and everything in his book so far seems to be well researched, and provides a lot of scientific reasoning.
- steveklabnik 16y agoHe's referring to Tim's first "4-hour" business, which was a suppliment/energy drink business. http://www.brainquicken.com/ http://www.brainquicken.com/
- eavc 16y agoYes, that's right.
- richardw 16y agoMy initial suspicion while reading the book was that he outsourced the research and writing for most of 4HWW. I reckon he asked one of his virtual assistants to write up the draft of what you can use virtual assistants for...and went from there. Still, I respect the guy for maxing out the idea, and he's certainly hugely driven.
- shard 16y agoHe came out with a book about fitness? Here's my response to his blog post on how he gained 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529040 (tl;dr summary: He made outrageous claims and employed photographic tricks.)
- steveklabnik 16y agoI haven't read it yet, but it seems more 'body hacking' than 'fitness,' exactly: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superhuman/dp/030746363X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292164227&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superh...