The 4 Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss
18 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2009–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Will make you consider what you want and how you can achieve it.
but I'd be surprised if anyone read it with an open mind and didn't learn anything or come away motivated to experiment with their lifestyle.
About how to earn money to live not live to earn money
4HWW redefined 'elite' as young entrepreneurial globe trotters (location freedom), and was probably the main igniter of the digital nomad movement
there's a chapter that really boost my confidence about what is the worse things that could happens, it really help me experimented with new stuff, break out my conservative mind, realize its ok to be weird and have made me perceive a different views on problems.
It's not a programming book but I quit my job 2 weeks after I read it :)
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