Is this book bullshit? The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

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This episode of On the Reg is slightly delayed because of
children being stranded in Western Port Bay, internet upload
speeds and an ill-advised attempt to record in the evening after
work. In other words, it took time to get our shit together (and
not just because we are both now over 50 and the government is
starting to show an interest in the contents of our poo (long
story).

This is the first of our special episode series called 'Is This
Book Bullshit?' where we examine the giants of the productivity
literature to see if what they say about being productive really
stacks up.

 We start with Inger reading 'The Four Hour Work Week' by
Tim Ferris in less than four hours and subjecting it to a
rigorous feminist critique. Jason comes along for the ride,
providing very necessary context and commentary along the way.
Inger eventually  rates this book as a 'Type 5' on the
Brisol Stool Chart (soft blobs with clear cut edges - passed
easily).

The team go on to take about the Victoria special forces ('The
Soggies'), why your brain does a 15 second refresh, why driving a
Tesla is like riding a nervous stallion, hyper grooming, the Doom
Scrolling Reminder Bot and many other side topics. In other
words, it's a pretty standard episode of On The Reg, just a
little late!

PS: there's a bit of the odd crackle and background noise in this
one - we were both recording under different circumstances than
usual, apologies!

Things we mentioned:

Sons of God by Heath O’loaughlin : Amazon Link


Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss : Amazon Link


Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15 seconds of
visual information : The Conversation


Future Fit by Andrea Clarke : Amazon Link


Doomscrolling Reminder Bot : Profile on Twitter


Endless Scream Bot : Profile on Twitter


Clean Text: removes all the shitty bits from PDFs etc when you
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