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Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned

Photo: 401K. The following article is a guest post by Chris Guillibeau, who’s traveled to 150+ countries and studied more micro-businesses than anyone I know. I hope you love this piece as much...

24 may 12 3 people like this

10 Uncommon “Superfoods” from the World of Ultra-Endurance

While doing research for The 4-Hour Body back in 2009, I resorted to Twitter in search of elite athletes who performed well on a vegan diet. I was repeatedly referred to Rich Roll, whom Men’s Fitness...

23 may 12 3 people like this

Neil Gaiman – The Best Commencement Speech You May Ever Hear (20 Minutes)

This will be a short post as, sometimes, brevity counts. I want to let Neil Gaiman speak in this instance. Neil is one of my favorite authors, and I first became fascinated by his imagination with Th...

22 may 12 2 people like this

Tim Ferriss: A Day In The Life

(Trouble viewing? See Tim Ferriss: A Day In The Life on Hulu. If you’re international, try using Hotspot Shield first.) I’m often asked, “What does your typical day look like?”...

24 apr 12 1 person likes this

How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?

Chad Mureta runs his seven-figure app business from his iPhone. (Photo: Jorge Quinteros). I first met Chad Mureta in Napa Valley in 2011. Two years prior, he had been in a horrible car accident. He&#...

23 apr 12 1 person likes this

Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Many times in the last five years, I’ve been asked: “If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be?” My answer is always the same: Richard Feynman. Right alongsid...

19 apr 12

Playing B-Ball with Obama: 6 Steps to Crossing Anything Off Your Bucket List

Let us start with a quote, often misattributed to Goethe: “Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid p...

04 apr 12 2 people like this

Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

(Photo: watz) If you’re a white-collar worker, hacking your body isn’t limited to the gym. In fact, what you do outside of the gym might be more important that what you do inside the gym....

12 mar 12 1 person likes this

“The Start-up’s Secret Weapon: Contests” or “How to Turn $100K into $12,000,000″

Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify. How did they turn a $100,000 prize into $12,000,000 in transactions? In the world of magazine articles, one of my all-time favorite headlines is “Anything You Can Do...

01 mar 12

The Top 10 Fiction Books for Non-Fiction Addicts

The dunes that inspired Dune: Agate beach sand dunes. (Photo: Kevin McNeal) For a mere 20 years or so, I refused to read fiction. Read something that someone just made up? I can do that myself, thank...

24 feb 12

Beyond X PRIZE: The 10 Best Crowdsourcing Tools and Technologies

Peter Diamandis explaining X PRIZE economics. (Photo: Hubert Burda) Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, and co-Founder and Chairman of the Singularity University...

20 feb 12 2 people like this

Paulo Coelho: How I Write

Paulo Coelho (Photo: Philip Volsem) Paulo Coelho has long been one of my writing inspirations. His work, of near universal appeal, spans from The Alchemist to the most recent Aleph and has been trans...

16 feb 12

Housecleaning: Be Featured in The 4-Hour Chef, Random Links, and Contest Updates

Hanoi toddler and b-boy, from a trip Ma.tt and I took in 2009. (Photo: Matt Mullenweg) The next post will be an interview on writing process with the inimitable Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist ...

29 jan 12 1 person likes this

How to Become an Effective CEO: Chief Emotions Officer

Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which he began at age 26 and built to more than 30 properties in California alone. In 2010, Joie ...

19 jan 12 1 person likes this

Tim Ferriss Getting His Ass Kicked + How to Survive a Physical Attack (Video Series)

This post might seem odd, as it starts with a random sequence from a random skill. There are three reasons for this: 1) I like to expose readers to things they’ve never explored. 2) The best lo...

09 jan 12 1 person likes this

No Brown M&M’s! David Lee Roth and the Power of Checklists

Article 126: No brown M&M’s! (Photo: Mr. T in DC) Happy New Year, all! I’ll be putting up a “Lessons learned in 2011″ post soon. In the meantime, here is a taste of thing...

02 jan 12 1 person likes this

Christmas Deals from Start-ups

(Photo: Kevin Dooley) Just for fun, I asked my start-ups (and a few friends) if they’d like to offer y’all a little something special from the holidays. Here’s an incomplete list. M...

22 dec 11

Foundation: Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss

Kevin Rose and I go deep on a few subjects in this longer-format episode of “Foundation,” on which he’s interviewed many of my favorite entrepreneurs and investors, including Jack D...

20 dec 11 1 person likes this

How to “Age” Your Wine 5 Years in 20 Seconds: Hyperdecanting

(Photo credit: Oandu) Wine tends to attract a lot of snobs who use bad French to ruin things. Done at the dinner table, a brutal technique called “hyperdecanting” will appall that muppet ...

19 dec 11

The 4-Hour Chef iPad App: iOS from Amazon Publishing? (Plus: Free Roundtrip Anywhere in the World)

Screenshot from The 4-Hour Chef iPad app The 4-Hour Chef app, first available only on Kindle Fire, is now available for the Appleverse (iPad)! Check it out here. It’s rated 12+ for “Mild ...

14 dec 11

The Painless Path to Endurance (Plus: Breville Winner and More)

“Victor” running an ultramarathon. Pavel Tsatsouline is a former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor, currently a subject matter expert to the US Navy SEALs and the US Secr...

07 dec 11 1 person likes this

The 4-Hour Chef – Cheat Day Sample: Tequila Hot Chocolate

For those of you waiting on the iOS version of the free 4-Hour Chef teaser app, and for anyone who’d like a cheat day experiment this weekend, I offer the following: Tobacco-infused Tequila Hot...

02 dec 11 2 people like this

The 4-Hour Chef – The First Kindle Fire Book Teaser (Want a Free Kindle Fire?)

A first look at the beta-cover of The 4-Hour Chef. Let me know what you think. The magic elves and I have been hard at work on an early Christmas gift for you all. In fact, there are quite a few good...

29 nov 11

Random Show – Episode 17 – Start-ups, Investing, and Pickled Vegetables

Long overdue, join me and Kevin Rose as we catch up on topics ranging from investing and Steve Jobs to pickled food and start-up launches. Thanks to Glenn for his usual Jedi videography. For the Brev...

23 nov 11

Filling the Void: Thoughts on Learning and Karma

Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (Photo: Jim Maragos/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile g...

16 nov 11

The Truth About Abs: How To Make $1,000,000 Profit Per Month with Digital Products (Plus: Noah Kaga...

Six-pack abs sell. (Photo: San Diego Shooter) Once or twice in the past, I have referred to “someone” who has earned $5,000,000-$10,000,000 per year with e-books and cross promotion. For ...

02 nov 11 4 people like this

How to Ski Powder – 15 Tips for Learning in 24 Hours

(Photo: RunningClouds) Last-minute packing is an art form, and most of my trips allow me to pack less than 10 pounds for a world tour. This time, 10 pounds was just the starting point. My packing lis...

15 oct 11

Belle Vue Clinic, Preventable Medical Disasters, and Stoic Lessons

(Photo: Dirty Bunny) [Warning: This post is one of my rare rants, perhaps my only rant, written last week when the reality-bending fury was fresh. Almost never seen, like a snow leopard, my angry sel...

02 oct 11 1 person likes this

8 Steps to Getting What You Want… Without Formal Credentials

(Photo: ElMarto) Michael Ellsberg has been a good friend since 2000. In the last few years, he has made a study of self-study. How do the best in business do what they do? Using his findings, he has...

29 sep 11 2 people like this

How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)

Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in orange. (Photo: Laughing Squid) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock...

24 sep 11

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