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.
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.
“Do I have to become a goat herder?”
That is how Henderson opens this chapter. His old college buddy Bryan asks this question while driving him from the Cape Town airport. Bryan has been watching Henderson post Facebook updates from El Salvador, Albania, Singapore. And he wants in. But he also has three kids, a wife, and an IT business with sixteen employees in South Africa.
Five words. That is all it took to change how Andrew Henderson thinks about life, money, and where to live.
Picture this. A packed conference room in Las Vegas. People who paid two thousand dollars each to hear one guy tell them they do not have to live where they were born.
What if you found out you were paying way more taxes than you had to, living in a place that does not actually treat you well, and there was a whole world of better options you never even considered?