#548: The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW 2007

The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek —
“Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW
2007 | Brought to you by “5-Bullet
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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is
my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the
routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own
life. 


This is a special episode, which features my very first speech at
SXSW in March of 2007! I didn’t know that a recording existed,
and it was a great surprise when Cal Newport, author of Deep Work
and writer for The New Yorker sent it to me. 


He used it as part of his research for a recent article that was
published in The New Yorker titled “Revisiting The 4-Hour
Workweek: How Tim Ferriss’s 2007 manifesto anticipated our
current moment of professional upheaval.” 


And the 2007 SXSW speech was really the event that put everything
into high gear. Influential tech bloggers who had heard the SXSW
talk wrote about The 4-Hour Workweek, which put it on the radar
of bigger media outlets. Eventually, the book made it onto The
New York Times Best Sellers list, where it stayed, more or less,
for the next seven years. It’s been a wild ride. 


One last thing: Hugh Forrest, if you’re listening, thank you
again for giving me a shot way back in the day! 


Please enjoy!


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