Brick wall © Les ChatfieldWhy are Projects so hard? Why do we fail here so often, even in workplaces featuring thorough planning and highly disciplined execution?

We do not fail despite, but because of these. We believe that turning a project into a success is like baking a pizza, while in fact, it resembles much more creating a pizza recipe.

Why? In our projects, we're not into producing identical results from identical ingredients. Every project is unique - it is like research & development, not like production. In R & D, diversity of results is what we strive for. In production, diversity is our worst enemy. We should be aware of this, however, we're making the same 4 mistakes, over and over again:  » Read more

To work only four hours per week and still lead a life of adventure and luxury - Tim Ferriss says you can do it, in his book «The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich».

Part of his concept is to outsource time-consuming, but well-definable tasks (he's calling that «Geo-Arbitrage»). Doing some experiments, i want to find out whether this can work and how.

The task

My goals are:  » Read more

To work only four hours per week and still lead a life of adventure and luxury - Tim Ferriss says you can do it, in his book «The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich».

This is Part 4 of my series on T4HWW. An overview of the series can be found here.

Money for nothing - Automation

You can earn money while you're asleep, says Tim Ferriss. To avoid too much premature excitement: it doesn't work without  » Read more