The 12-Week MBA Chapter 1: What Is Value and Why Should You Care?
If someone asked you “what is the purpose of a company?” what would you say? Most people go straight to “making money.” And that is not wrong. But it is not the full picture either.
If someone asked you “what is the purpose of a company?” what would you say? Most people go straight to “making money.” And that is not wrong. But it is not the full picture either.
Tim Ferriss opens The 4-Hour Body with a scene that tells you everything about this man. He is backstage at a Nine Inch Nails concert, doing air squats in a bathroom stall. His friend catches his head bobbing above the divider. Forty squats, in silence, in a public restroom.
Tim Ferriss opens The 4-Hour Body with a scene that tells you everything about this man. He is backstage at a Nine Inch Nails concert, doing air squats in a bathroom stall. His friend catches his head bobbing above the divider. Forty squats, in silence, in a public restroom.
Here is a question that bothers me. We have thousands of years of recorded history. We have examples of every possible financial mistake. We have libraries full of books about market crashes. And yet people keep doing the same thing over and over.
Here is a question that bothers me. We have thousands of years of recorded history. We have examples of every possible financial mistake. We have libraries full of books about market crashes. And yet people keep doing the same thing over and over.
I just finished reading “From Tulips to Bitcoins” by Torsten Dennin, and I have to say - this book is a wild ride through 400 years of people losing (and making) fortunes on commodities and crypto.
I just finished reading “From Tulips to Bitcoins” by Torsten Dennin, and I have to say - this book is a wild ride through 400 years of people losing (and making) fortunes on commodities and crypto.
“Come to Cuenca, where flowers bloom from your toilet water!”
That joke comes from Henderson’s mastermind group over breakfast in Medellin, Colombia. They were laughing about retirement newsletters that overhype cheap countries with ridiculous copywriting. You know the type. “Live on a tropical beach for $623 a month!” Meanwhile Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama have already been burned through by the newsletter crowd. Ecuador was next.
Do you really need to spend two years and six figures on an MBA to be good at business? According to Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt, the answer is no. And they wrote a book to prove it.
So I picked up The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. And I’m going to retell it here, chapter by chapter, in a way that’s actually fun to read.