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The one thing that absolutely drives me up the wall is the recent touting of "Tim Ferriss's 'Slow-Carb' Diet" as if this was some sort of revelation previously
by brianmwang 16y ago
The one thing that absolutely drives me up the wall is the recent touting of "Tim Ferriss's 'Slow-Carb' Diet" as if this was some sort of revelation previously withheld from the masses. Every time I hear somebody saying they're following it from 4HB I think, "These principles have been freely available and many times presented through a variety of media channels for years. Why is this news now and why is it being credited to Tim Ferriss?"
I won't downplay Tim's mastery of self-marketing, but seeing this kind of thing makes me go bonkers.
- me2i81 16y agoWhat I find tiresome are entire books dedicated to a diet that can be described in a few pages. In Ferriss's book, this diet described in a few pages, with the usual self-help testimonials to fill it out to a whole chapter. He put out the same diet in a blog post a few years ago: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-days-without-doing-any-exercise/ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-... so at this point I don't begrudge him putting it in a book chapter. His first book was kind of ridiculous IMHO, but I liked this one. You can cherry pick silly bits out of it like the reviewer did, but a lot of it is pretty reasonable and does motivate people to actually try stuff.
- skeltoac 16y agoGood information bears repeating. Also, if it wasn't written in the last six months nobody will believe it.
- matt_s 16y agoNone of what he has is new or revolutionary, it is just that he has gone through research and experiments to distill the key 2.5% of what you need to do for your body and poses everything as "try this as an experiment" instead of traditional books telling you to adopt their entire philosophy (Atkins, South Beach, etc.). It is much more actionable self help.