[jfengel]

My recollection of Four Hour Work Week was that the core of it was dropshipping.

I don't really need to outsource most of my daily activities, which was the rest of the book. The big win of the book was to serve as a middleman, but that kind of rent-seeking quickly fills up the niches.

If he's saying "discover a brand new market and develop it before everybody else does", yeah, that's pretty much what we're all doing on HN. It takes a lot more than four hours per week until you find it, and very few people find it. The rest of us labor 80 hour weeks in our startups, or give up and work merely 40 hours.

[yuriko_boyko]

The drop shipping part I recall was part of 5 options he outlines and discusses the pros and cons and roi of. And the discover a brand new market and develop a product was another. The core really was just streamlining your inbound and focusing on creating a great product overpriced for luxury markets so you have customers that pay well enough and can be managed by one person.

It's really no secret that Tim himself worked 100 hour weeks for an year before he could streamline his company, he says so himself.

The best idea I took was that of not banking on retirement and constantly upskilling. And the hypothetical questions like if you had 6 months to complete your 5 year plan what would you do. Makes a man think creatively.