The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
The above video is one of my favorite presentations I’ve given in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled “How to Blog without Killing Yourself”. More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience. The original title was “Scalable Blogging Behaviors: How to Grow [...]

THE NEXT BOOK: From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman
(Photo: vramak) It’s finally time to tell you all. My next book will be a hacker’s guide to the human body. The working title is “From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman.” It has actually been planned for more than two years. I’ve recorded almost every workout I’ve done since age 15, [...]
Kurze Prozesse

Prozessmanagement - Ein Leitfaden zur prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltung
Bereits in der sechsten Auflage liegt das von Becker, Kugeler und Rosemann herausgegebene Buch “Prozessmanagement: Ein Leitfaden zur prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltung” vor. Das insgesamt 700 Seiten umfassende Werk ist in drei Teile gegliedert. Teil A, “Prozessorientierte Organisationsgestaltung” erlà¤utert die Grundlagen der Prozessorientierung und die Vorgehensweise zur Neugestaltung der Geschà¤ftsprozesse im Unternehmen. Die Anwendung dieser Vorgehensweise wird [...]

Paper zum Download: Kollaborationen, Choreographien und Konversationen in BPMN 2.0
Nachdem die Version 2.0 der BPMN recht weit gediehen ist, wird es Zeit, sich genauer mit den Neuerungen zu beschà¤ftigen. Es fallen insbesondere die Erweiterungen fà¼r die Modellierung unternehmensà¼bergreifender Prozesse ins Auge. Leider wurde der Sprachumfang der BPMN damit deutlich umfangreicher und komplexer. Beispielsweise sollte man die folgenden Konzepte verstehen und voneinander abgrenzen kà¶nnen: •    Prozess [...]
Larry Winget -- Money - Personal Development - Business

It's Easier To Be Stupid
That's right. It's easier to be stupid than it is be smart. It is easier to listen to the political pundits and television news anchors and trust their words completely than it is to study, read, and search to discover the truth about a political issue or to actually read one of the bills or [...]

Identity theft via social networking sites
This week facebook allowed you to select a user name so people could find you more easily. You could select one name and it could not be transferred, edited or changed, so you were advised to select carefully! At 12:01 Saturday morning when it became legal to select your user name, people went [...]

The Five Things To Do When The Money Runs Out
I get a lot of email from people who have either lost their jobs or are losing their jobs. Their 401K is gone, their savings is zeroed out or maybe their unemployment checks have run out. This is becoming a common situation for a good part of our society as unemployment rises. [...]
Norway.no

New obligatory IT standards for the state sector adopted
(Government) The Norwegian government has adopted a series of new obligatory IT standards for the state sector. Now it will be easier for users to get access to information material offered by the government - whether it be graphics, videos, sound or picture material - regardless of which software and computer equipment is being used.

Higher electricity prices
(Statistics Norway) The price of electricity faced by households was 31.2 per cent higher in the middle of the first quarter of 2009 than twelve months earlier. Services and the manufacturing industry have also seen a rise in electricity prices in the same period.

The rural and regional policy of the Norwegian Government
(Government) The rural and regional policy of the Norwegian Government. Local growth and hope for the future. Summary of White Paper No. 25 (2008-2009)
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