Comments on: What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:31:56 +0000

It's true that large corporations are soulless. The “human” part of human resources is less important. The “resources” part is the more important word. All employees are resources.

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:31:56 +0000

It's true that large corporations are soulless. The “human” part of human resources is less important. The “resources” part is the more important word. All employees are resources.

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:31:56 +0000

It's true that large corporations are soulless. The “human” part of human resources is less important. The “resources” part is the more important word. All employees are resources.

By: Francesco Giartosio

Francesco Giartosio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:31:18 +0000

I read the book and overall liked it, it's candid and passionate and the general concept is right.

I think the 4 hours count is not totally fake. I launched an online accounting service and now I'm working 14 hours a day (most weekends included! But no kids around) ... mainly on my second startup! The accounting services take now actually a couple of hours a day on average, mostly to answer calls and mails and collect payments. (Talking about answering calls and mails, I believe my customers LOVE my real time answers. So it's customer service but it's also useful marketing.)

I'm not doing the work myself, I've outsourced most of it except for customer contact and invoicing. I believe I view myself as an entrepreneur rather than a freelancer. And by the way, much of my working hours are really just keeping up to date with the news in the area I'm working on.

Cheers.

By: Francesco Giartosio

Francesco Giartosio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:44:26 +0000

I read somewhere a blog post titled “I want to start my company but my wife won't let me”, or sort of. And believe me, it's often so!
The post ends suggesting a foot massage …

By: Francesco Giartosio

Francesco Giartosio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:31:18 +0000

By: Francesco Giartosio

Francesco Giartosio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:44:26 +0000

I read somewhere a blog post titled “I want to start my company but my wife won't let me”, or sort of. And believe me, it's often so!
The post end suggesting a foot massage …

By: Jan Schultink

Jan Schultink — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:05:38 +0000

Pretty much correct.

By: Jan Schultink

Jan Schultink — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:05:38 +0000

Pretty much correct.

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:11:35 +0000

I read that book randomly in a bookstore one day between some classes. I realized that fundamentally, it was about keeping your deck of cards that is dealt to you at life in order. Your first battle, and your last battle is always with yourself.

It's one of those reasons I (usually) carry around a small notebook with me for random ideas about things I want to do. Some are banal. Some sound incredible. It seems that though, the more that I write them down, the more likely I will do the things I want and get direction to do them, slowly, over time.

That seems to be the main message to me, or at least it was at the time...