Episode 153: Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is the author of The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body.\n\n\u201cIf you have a fitness magazine, you can\u2019t just write one issue, \u2018Here are the rules!\u2019 ... My job, conversely, is to make myself obsolete. The last thing I want to be is a guru, someone people come to for answers. I want to be the person people come to for better questions.\u201d\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and The Great Courses for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@tferriss\nFerriss's blog\nFerriss's podcast\n[8:00] "Brigade De Cuisine" (John McPhee \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Feb 1979) [sub req'd]\n[10:00] "How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires\u2026" (Four-Hour Workweek \u2022 Mar 2007)\n[13:00] George Plimpton\u2019s Longform Archive\n[20:00] Surely You\u2019re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard Feynman \u2022 W.W. Norton \u2022 1985)\n[22:00] Jos\xe9 Aldo MMA Highlights (YouTube)\n[24:00] "How Choose Your Adventure Was Born" (Marketplace \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[30:00] Episode #304: Heretics (This American Life \u2022 Dec 2005)\n[40:00] "Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide" (Four-Hour Workweek \u2022 May 2015)\n[49:00] "Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing" (David Streitfeld \u2022 The New York Times \u2022 Nov 2012)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices