Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek  By Philip Brewer on 16 July
2007 (Updated 18 August 2007) 2 comments  The 4-Hour Workweek by
Tim Ferriss is really three small books in one.  The first thing
Ferriss does is make the case that you ought to figure out
exactly what you want to do, and then arrange your life so that
you can do that. This is one of those ideas that is at once
blindingly obvious and completely far-fetched. What else would
you do? How many actually manage it? Ferriss spices these parts
up with extended examples of the travel, study, and adventure
that he has arranged his life around.   The second thing is to
provide a bunch of strategies for freeing up your time. Some of
these are general, but a large subset are aimed specifically at
the ordinary employee who has a boss who expects him to show up
every day. Whether these will actually work for you depends a
lot on you, a lot on your boss, and a lot on exactly what your
job is. If you're a hair stylist or massage therapist, they're
not going to work