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The funny thing is that Ferris isn't even hiding what he's doing. According to the book (I read a couple of pages in the Amazon preview) he decided on the title
by yarcob 5y ago
The funny thing is that Ferris isn't even hiding what he's doing. According to the book (I read a couple of pages in the Amazon preview) he decided on the title "The 4 work week" by A/B testing various titles and using what gets most clicks. He just writes whatever people want to hear and even tells you that this is what he is doing! There is nothing to learn from someone like that.
- shapefrog 5y agoI am pretty sure you just outlined some excelent lessons while claiming there is nothing to be learnt from them.
- Cycl0ps 5y agoIn full, Ferris' book is about how to adjust a business to operate without direct oversight, along with adjusting your own lifestyle to live off of whatever income that generates. One of the key points to that is making a product to fit an unsatisfied market. There was a desire from people to earn a decent living while cutting out unnecessary work, so he used past experiences to create a product for that market. It happens to be self referential at points, but that's done to show the concepts work. He could just as easily leave the out and have the audience be none the wiser. By no means is the book a panacea on entrepreneurship, Tim focuses on outsourcing in many places where digital automation could handle the work and his definition of Work is "things I don't want to do" rather than "billable hours" so it's unclear if even he meets the books titular goal.
- eloff 5y ago> There is nothing to learn from someone like that. I was with you right up to the end. Obviously there are plenty of things to learn, and you identified some of them. How you judge those lessons according to your own values will vary, but they're not vacuous.