I specifically chose to read The Four-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris because it is such a large part of our collective knowledge at this point, or so I thought. I’ve heard the book referenced countless times in financial and personal and career development blogs. I thought I knew what it was about – creating efficiencies at work and eliminating distraction. What this book actually promotes is completely leaving a normal job and quite literally spending only 4 hours a week (or less) managing a business.
Especially when the weather is nicer, I go on little lunch walks in the area around my office. I’m bounded by maybe a two-mile radius – since I must get there and get back during my lunch hour. The Randall School in Southeast Washington DC is inside my two-mile radius. I’ve photographed it a couple times. Through Flickr, an editor at Preservation magazine saw my photo and asked if she could include it in an upcoming issue. I was already listing it under a Creative Commons license, so yes, of course she can use it. And I have to say, it’s really cool to see an image of mine in a magazine – that hasn’t happened before (bottom right).
Traveling for work for the first time in a while (by plane, anyway), I find myself at a beautiful almost-seaside resort in Naples, Florida. Unlike the many, many other beach resorts I’ve visited (I jest), this one isn’t right on the beach. Instead, there is a .6 mile walk on an immaculately-maintained boardwalk through a mangrove… grove. This is not a problem. What could be a problem is this: