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I’ve Been Asked To Edit The 4-Hour Workweek!
By Brick | February 20, 2008
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Yes, it’s true. Author Tim Ferriss has invited me to edit his best selling book The 4-Hour Workweek. Here’s the thing: he has basically extended this invitation to everyone! For those who wish to contribute, Ferriss is collecting ideas via an open wiki for the next edition of the book:
I want an improved and expanded 4HWW to help propel the critical mass needed for large-scale institutional, and even policy-level, change. The book alone won’t do it, obviously, but I believe it can play a small part as instigator.
Source: The Blog of Tim Ferriss.
I think this is an interesting strategy. A lot of people (including myself obviously) have been inspired by the ideas behind the book and have made new innovations in lifestyle design using the book as a starting point. As Ferriss says: “we” is smarter than “me”.
Ferriss goes on to say:
To my knowledge, this is the first time a NY Times bestseller has ever been made open to public editing. In fact, I haven’t seen any traditionally-published book ever crowdsourced on a global scale.
Source: The Blog of Time Ferriss.
Well, I am not so sure about that. Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, the authors of the best selling Naked Conversations, put chapters of their book on their blog for review. In essence, that book (or at least a good portion of it) was edited by the blogosphere. I believe there are other examples (as far as I know Producing Open Source Software was - fittingly - reviewed by many online before being published). By the way, I highly recommend both of these books, although the later will probably most interest those who work in the software industry.
Anyway, here is your chance to leave your mark on the book that started it all while Ferriss gets his book updated and fact checked virtually for free - which is cool - after all crowdsouring is just another version of outsourcing!
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February 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Yes, I got the open invite as well. The question is: what’s in it for me? Other than personal pride, what is the motivator for individuals to help edit Tim’s next book? Aren’t you just serving as a free outsourcer for Tim? Or am I missing something here?