Ferriss

I cannot highly enough recommend the Four Hour Workweek book. It's full of wonderful ideas on breaking away from the day to dayness of life if you're up to the challenge. Tim Ferriss has an incredible ability to get outside of the world's workings and live his own life.

He also has a website, a blog, for lack of a better term. The site has been equally full of good information both in the posts themselves and in reference areas around the site.

On each of the posts (near as I can tell, having spot-checked it a bit in retrospect) there exists a byline:

"Written by Tim Ferriss"

Well today there's a post written by Tim Ferriss (possibly) confessing that the last year of posts have indeed not been written by him, that he's outsourced pretty much the whole thing. I've been had.

And herein lies the problem.

97% of what Ferriss has to say is plain old great out of the box, innovative lifestyle thinking. But he crosses a line I simply can not abide.

I've wondered on this and other occasions about that motivation. Why should I care after all?

When push comes to shove, I get to pick the qualities I value in people I respect and look up to, and while he's flirted with this line more than once, this pushes him over the edge for me.

I can't trash him or his work. It's innovative and wonderful.

But I won't be back to the site. I don't care if you're going to teach me to fly, be honest about it.

I'll not be made a patsy.