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You're the reason I'm on HN, so your feedback is always more than "just another comment" to me. WHY I INTERVIEW TIM: 1) Eric Ries once told me how a tiny chan
by AndrewWarner 16y ago
You're the reason I'm on HN, so your feedback is always more than "just another comment" to me.
WHY I INTERVIEW TIM:
1) Eric Ries once told me how a tiny change to a marketing page is worth hours of recoding. I believe there are little changes that have big significance and Tim is good at identifying and explaining them.
2) There are loads of books about health, but his is going to be a top seller. I'm curious about what it is about the way he presents & markets ideas that help him stand out.
3) Tim Ferriss gets a lot of attention. This response would be incomplete if I didn't admit that Tim's name got my other work a lot of hits, and it will continue to. He has fans that still tweet about an interview that I did with him over a year ago.
WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER:
1) I should have addressed some of his health claims. It's outside the scope of my work to talk about health, but if we brought it up, I needed to talk about opposing research.
2) I might have been too fawning at the end. I always love my guests, but at the end of an interview, when someone sits for 1 hour and answers questions, I'm prone to gushing out of gratitude.
- edw519 16y agoAndrew, everything you said makes perfect sense, but when I read, "Tim's name got my other work a lot of hits," I just said "duh". Sometimes a long day in the trees makes me lose sight of the forest. Congratulations and keep up the great work.