I recently picked up the 4 Hour Work Week again. I remember reading it when it first came out - and like many people - it changed what I thought was possible about the world. With books like that, I like to revisit it from time to time to remind myself of concepts or revisit principles I can still implement. Some of it rings true still. Some of the stuff is outdated (as Tim outlines here, along with some things he'd like to add). At one point, I got ...
Archives for March 2018
The Perfectionist’s Antidote
Marty McCutchen is a long-time NBA referee - who recently was one of my favorite NBA podcasts with Zach Lowe. Over the past few years, the player and referee relationship in the NBA has gotten more tense - with players thinking that referees have gotten worse and the refs thinking that players are acting less professional. Objectively: refereeing is a tough job. It's an incredibly stressful, complicated, and frenetic environment. There's tons of ...
IMPOSSIBLE Podcast 014: Andy Stumpf
Andy Stumpf is a former Navy SEAL, awarded 5 bronze stars, a purple heart and numerous other awards. He's a pilot, a base-jumper and held the world record for longest wingsuit flight - flying over 18 miles after jumping from over 36,000 feet. He's an avid bow hunter and the host of the podcast Cleared Hot. We talk about his story, his adventures wingsuit flying, and the lessons learned from a life of doing hard things and as he says "Traveling the world ...
