{"id":108,"date":"2008-09-16T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6waghs.net\/poojanblog\/is-merlin-mann-talking-about-tim-ferris\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:57:18","slug":"is-merlin-mann-talking-about-tim-ferris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/is-merlin-mann-talking-about-tim-ferris\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Merlin Mann talking about Tim Ferris?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2008\/09\/08\/four-years\">Four Years | 43 Folders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One particularly gifted arrival on the productivity and self-help scene authored some of the most profoundly useful advice I&rsquo;d ever heard about attention management &mdash; but, then followed it up by showing how those extra cycles could be used to game the system so efficiently that you can sit in a hammock for 164 hours a week while people in India write birthday cards to your friends. That one became a runaway bestseller and, perhaps unintentionally, formed the new template for how to market productivity as an extreme lifestyle. I also have to imagine that it singlehandedly revived our nation&rsquo;s sagging hammock industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m rather illiterate in this field, so if there&#8217;s someone else this describes, I wouldn&#8217;t know.\u00c2\u00a0My apologies ahead of time to both Merlin Mann and Tim Ferris if I&#8217;ve got this all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I did enjoy Tim Ferris&#8217; book, which details several techniques of productivity&#8211;even if the whole month-long getaway isn&#8217;t my bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00c2\u00a0Four Years | 43 Folders. One particularly gifted arrival on the productivity and self-help scene authored some of the most profoundly useful advice I&rsquo;d ever heard about attention management &mdash; but, then followed it up by showing how those extra cycles could be used to game the system so efficiently that you can sit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}