I'm James McCullough: entrepreneur, writer, father, and coffee-fueled polymath. Here, I explore big ideas across diverse topics, offering fresh perspectives on our complex world....
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The 4 Hour Body - Free Chapters - by Timothy Ferriss
A collection of links to articles that are free chapters or sections of The 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. Includes links to some downloadable PDFs too....
Don't Move, Improve
> Success will come only to those who are willing to have a little blind faith–in themselves, in their art, and in their ability to stand tall and take the world by storm. — Ashley Ambirge, The Middle Finger Project [http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/resolutions-are-for-chumps-i-choose-revolution/] With 2010 now over, a lot of people have been writing about their meditations on the previous year and what they have planned for the next (examples: Murray [http://www.murlu.com/2011-goals/]...
On Reading- Gawker, and the Trifecta of Reading
> … Blogs are emphasizing the trait that’s always defined them, the fact that they’re an ongoing flow of information instead of just a collection of published pages. — Anil Dash, Gawker Is A Blog. Just Like Twitter [http://dashes.com/anil/2010/12/gawker-is-a-blog-just-like-twitter.html]. It’s been two months since I last wrote about the importance of reading [http://www.foursides.ca/pausing-to-read-site-design] and how it is changing in the digital age, and I thought it was important to revis...
Pausing to Read - Site Design
> Instapaper does point to a clear flaw in newspaper and magazine website design: The reading experience is rarely, if ever, the priority. For better or worse, it typically takes a backseat to organizing and promoting content and generating pageviews. — Jake Brooks [http://brooksinbeta.com/] Joanne of Tomorrow Museum [http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2010/10/06/instapaper-and-readability-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-design/] pointed me to this article [http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2...
The Social Network Review
> Marylin Delpy: The site got 2200 hits within 2 hours? Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand. Marylin Delpy: I’m sorry? Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two thousand. I saw The Social Network [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P7Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0034G4P7Q&linkCode=as2&tag=four0b-20&linkId=JPONPNXGFCO5S64I] tonight with my girlfriend, and I tried to go into the movie with a clear head. After the better part of the year watching the trailers, reading the rum...
Breaking the SEO Chains, or The Value of Not Blogging
> There is so much to write that I haven’t written. And I’ll never get to paper. And while it’s frustrating, to worry too much about it is as much a feckless effort as consternation over time passing. It just happens. Joanne McNeil, Tomorrow Museum [http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com] Joanne wrote that quote in her post titled, “Blogging After Not Blogging [http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2010/09/08/blogging-after-not-blogging/trackback/],” and I thought about my own experiences in trying to write som...
Jeff Jarvis, Google Me, and the Future of the Internet
Note from October 2014: Google Me was the precursor to Google+. With the latest discussion surrounding the end of the web [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1], and now the end of the telephone number [http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/phone-numbers-dead/], I returned to speculating about the shape of Google Me and the future of the Internet. I still believe that the way Google Me will be used will eventually be that of a content generator [/blog/2010/7/12/why-google-me-is-n...
Digital Sabbatical
> It was all just starting to feel too much like an eating disorder or like academic mania — being preoccupied with thoughts you don’t care about, compulsively seeking information that is at once overwhelming and boring, soliciting the approval of people you don’t know, relying on your own anxiety for stimulation. Alice Gregory, Ornament of My Might [http://bluefugate.tumblr.com/post/841565843/new-life] As I sit here, staring at my growing number of unread articles in Google Reader (437 at la...
The Paleo Leap, or A Step Back in Time
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have finished reading The Primal Blueprint [http://amzn.to/2qQy8jX]. It’s an incredibly easy read to get through, as the writing style is conversational and the layout is straight forward. One could skim this book by reading the chapter summaries, check out the appendixes in the back, and be well on their way to making the change to a primal diet. While reading several blogs about the primal diet, I decided I would run a quick experiment for myself to see ho...
