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He's yet another Tim Ferris. Yes, you can further yourself by violating the rules of society around you and put furthering your own goals above anybody else's c
by groby_b 14y ago
He's yet another Tim Ferris. Yes, you can further yourself by violating the rules of society around you and put furthering your own goals above anybody else's considerations.
We can argue all day if that's unethical or just "hacking the rules" - ultimately, it's a choice we all need to make on our own.
- rhizome 14y agoWhile there are ethics involved in deciding whether or not to do things like these, they're actually not choices we all can make on our own, because, like with Tim Ferriss's model, the advice doesn't scale. It will only work for a relatively-few people, and for a limited time, before barriers are constructed.
- georgecmu 14y agoHe's yet another Tim Ferris. Or Victor Kozeny. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/12/23/219833/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/... After emigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, he was virtually penniless when he returned to Prague in 1990 at the age of 27. Yet in just four years, armed with only an economics degree from Harvard and a short stint working at the London fund manager Robert Fleming, Kozeny transformed himself into one of his country's most celebrated fund managers, with a personal fortune estimated at $200 million.
- monksy 14y agoWhats with the hate for Tim Ferris. I'm not a fan boy, but you have to admire his desire to try new things and then write about them. He may not be the most agreeable person, but when you have an environment that becomes incredibly ridged its kinda nice to see people like him out there. Even if their findings may not meet everyone's needs.