Hanselminutes Podcast 70 - Interview with Timothy Ferriss, Author of the 4 Hour Workweek
My seventieth podcast is up. In this episode I sit down with New York Times Best Selling Author Timothy Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has an interesting take on how to focus on what's important in your life and offers techniques to be more effective. Scott comes at it from the programmer's perspective. Photo courtesy of John Lam.
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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An excellent, very useful show, that is accessible to more than just the usual geeks! (I got my wife to listen to it and she found the discussion fascinating!)
Keep up the good work.
I've think you've been taken in by this huckster.
He's shows his true character early in the book with his kickboxing story, winning by looking for loopholes and shortcuts. First by making the outrageous claim that he dehydrated himself for the weigh-in but gained back 23 (or was it 28?) pounds by the next day. Then, to disregard the spirit of the sport and win on a technicality of pushing his opponent out of the ring 3 times. I can understand it as a stunt to prove that the rules of the tournament need to be changed. I don't understand how he can be proud of his claimed achievement.
Is this the way you want to practice development, looking to dupe your clients with shoddy software, skipping 80% of your tests and quality checks and looking for loopholes in contracts? Perhaps you'd rather outsource all that and just watch the money roll in from some exotic location abroad.
I like your software development analogy...
Regards,
SW
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