November 25, 1973. A Sunday morning in Germany. The autobahn is completely empty. No cars. No trucks. Nothing. The country that gave the world Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, the country that has no general speed limit on its highways because people love driving that much, just banned driving on Sundays.
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, “Honey, today was a win. We created a million dollars of value by nudging the cost of capital down by 0.005 percent!” But somehow, every single manager in every company is connected to value creation. Chapter 10 explains how.
Yes, this is a chapter about female orgasms in a fitness book. Two chapters, actually. Chapters 19 and 20 are where Ferriss applies his usual method - find experts, test everything, report what works - to a topic most fitness authors would never touch. He does it with a straight face and detailed notes. Let’s do the same.
Yes, this is a chapter about female orgasms in a fitness book. Two chapters, actually. Chapters 19 and 20 are where Ferriss applies his usual method - find experts, test everything, report what works - to a topic most fitness authors would never touch. He does it with a straight face and detailed notes. Let’s do the same.
Henderson opens this chapter with an interview. Not just any interview. He is sitting in his home in Bogota, Colombia, talking to Michael Saylor. Yes, that Michael Saylor. The MicroStrategy guy who bought over $2 billion in Bitcoin by early 2021.
On April 19, 2022, Netflix told the world it lost 200,000 subscribers. The stock dropped by a third in one day. Fifty billion dollars of shareholder value just vanished. But how do you even put a price tag on a company in the first place?
Chapters 17 and 18 are about building muscle with the absolute minimum amount of gym time. Two exercises per workout. One set each. Less than 30 minutes a week in the gym. Ferriss calls it Occam’s Protocol, after Occam’s Razor - the idea that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Chapters 17 and 18 are about building muscle with the absolute minimum amount of gym time. Two exercises per workout. One set each. Less than 30 minutes a week in the gym. Ferriss calls it Occam’s Protocol, after Occam’s Razor - the idea that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
For most of human history, money meant metal. Gold coins. Silver coins. Paper notes that you could walk into a bank and trade for actual gold. Then in 1971, a US president went on television and changed everything. Money became just paper. Backed by nothing but trust.
For most of human history, money meant metal. Gold coins. Silver coins. Paper notes that you could walk into a bank and trade for actual gold. Then in 1971, a US president went on television and changed everything. Money became just paper. Backed by nothing but trust.