Travels: Interview with a digital nomad

Here's a link to an interview with Raam Dev, a digital nomad as he calls himself. The blog of Raam is one of the few I follow because I recognize myself in much of what he writes.

Here you go: click

Motivations: Phase 1 eco-nomadism completed

Since a few days I am happy to say that I consider the first phase of eco-nomadism completed.

This means I've found enough eco-hosts to circulate through in my hometown. Thank you to all these people who are willing to help me with accomplishing this project! :) 

Now it's time to focus on phase 2: Go for a break-even situation where I earn as much money as I spend. More on this later. ;)

Motivations: Video about non-possession

Here is a short video I saw recently about a guy who's living with a minimal amount of stuff. I recognize and agree with much of what he says because I recently also reduced my stuff to a bare minimum.

Really interesting what he has to say about this lifestyle: Click

Enjoy!

Languages: O-bomma likes that you voted for Obama!

Congratulations to Obama and all Americans that voted for him! My grandmother and I wish you another good four years! ;)

Body: New book coming up, The 4-hour Chef

As you all might know by my previous posts: I am a fan of Tim Ferriss, especially his book, the 4-hour body. I haven't read his other book, the 4-hour workweek, entirely and I have to say I'm not a fan of what I read in that book. Still, I really like the fact that he questions everything, experiments with it and comes to his own conclusions, which are most of the time very surprising. 

Now he's introducing his new book, the 4-hour Chef. This is a part of the mail I got today:

"If you missed the big news, The 4-Hour Chef is being boycotted by 700+ bookstores across the United States, led by Barnes & Noble.

Why? Because I’m the next big bet from Amazon Publishing. I now have armies of booksellers hoping me to fail, despite my only motivation: getting books to as many people as humanly possible.

Some retailers are rallying behind the book, but they are few and far between. I’m certainly grateful for their support and will help ensure they move copies.

In The New York Times today, David Streitfeld writes:

The book [The 4-Hour Chef] might need all of his considerable promotional talents. It has not yet generated instant heat even on Amazon; on Sunday it was ranked No. 597 in books and 4,318 in the Kindle Store. “The 4-Hour Workweek,” in an updated edition published in 2009, was by contrast No. 328 in books and 2,723 in Kindle.

To that, I would reply: Patience, dear friends and foes. The number is moving in the right direction.

I don’t rush, and I haven’t even gotten started. I still intend the launch of The 4-Hour Chef to be very different… starting with this post. And despite the hailstorm of blacklistings, I have not downsized my ambitions. I have upgraded them.

Fiction: My goal is to have The 4-Hour Chef hit national bestseller lists.
Fact: My goal is to have all three of my books on the lists at the same time."