"Those who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

This is the most important and...

Is that a woman or a 12-year old drinking beer? I don't know, but they're happy about it.

Denmark has recently emerged as the world's happiest country, beating out Bhutan, the long-time favorite of anthropologists everywhere.

The birthplace of LEGO -- a contraction of...

Branding is no longer for Fortune 500 companies and Madison Avenue agencies with excessive budgets and inadequate tracking.

Personal branding is about managing your name -- even if you don't own a business -- in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records.

Going on a date?...

I love fast cars. Enter the Audi R8 supercar. OMFG.

I get a massive amount of e-mail -- almost 300 per hour at one point during major media -- which is why I outsourced my inbox in the first place to virtual...

I'll cover my head in shame: I only discovered keyboard shortcuts about a year ago. There, I said it.

Here are a few shortcuts that take out excessive mouse use and -- cumulatively over thousands of computer movements per week -- save hours and hours.

There a million...

I once went almost five days without sleep in 1996 just to see 1) if I could make a week (I couldn't), and 2) what the side-effects would be.

I was a new neuroscience major at Princeton at the time and hoped to do research with famed serotonin pioneer,...

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Leo Babauta, who writes about simplicity and productivity on his blog, Zen Habits.

I don't know about you, but I get dozens -- if not hundreds -- of emails a day.

Unlike most people, however, I'm able to process...

Men, please take this as the verbalization of fantasies I know everyone of you has had. Ladies, take this as an inside look at the hardwiring of the male mind...

Perhaps I've been watching too many mating battles on Planet Earth, but I'm beginning to think (once again) punching...

Guess who won?

Indians have founded more engineering and technology companies in the U.S. during the past decade than immigrants from Britain, China, Taiwan and Japan combined (Source: Where The Engineers Are, Vivek Wadhwa, 2007).

Incredible.

The entrepreneurial abilities of Indians...

What is the true cost of your commute? One example comes from 4-Hour Work Week reader Troy Gardner, who recently wrote to me:

I'm still work focused (I like creating things!), but since I control my time/location, I'm reaping some of the rewards of being...

The menu in the Slovak Republic: full-contact video below.

Long time no see! I just landed back in CA from a long overdue mini-retirement through London, Scotland, Sardinia, Slovak Republic, Austria, Amsterdam, and Japan.

Some unpleasant surprises awaited me when I checked...

This is a question I have fought with a lot over the years.

Spending time with the upwardly mobile in places like NYC and LA, one can't help but believe the consensus: It is better to wait until you have made a lot of money before trying to change the...

Specialization isn't always a good thing.

Are the days of Da Vinci dead? Is it possible to, at once, be a world-class painter, engineer, scientist, and more?

"No way. Those times are long gone. Nothing was discovered then. Now the best you can do is pick...

"You're nobody here at $10 million," said Gary Kremen, the 43-year old founder of Match.com, of Silicon Valley.

In the August 5th New York Times article titled, "In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich," he and others in the nation's wealthiest 1/2 of 1 percent admitted to feeling...

"This $@#&ing Mac will be the death of me. Intuitive, my ass."

It just slipped out, and I don't think I can be blamed. I was ready to leave the PC behind and take my Mac overseas for the first time when I couldn't figure out how to resize...

All your blogs are belong to Matt. ((c) misterbisson)

Shame on me.

I don't know how to code. I should, but I need to get my Indonesian and Arabic fix before I can tackle Python and Ruby on Rails and Sugar-Coated Sugar Bombs.

That is part of the...

"Not-to-do" lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.

The reason is simple: what you don't do determines what you can do.

Here are nine stressful and common habits that entrepreneurs and office workers should strive to eliminate. The bullets are followed by more detailed descriptions. Focus...

This week I interview Christine Comaford-Lynch. This five-time CEO not only sold or took public all of her companies, she has also assisted more than 700 of the Fortune 1000 with accelerating innovation. Bill Gates has called her "super high-bandwidth," and she's consulted with both the Clinton and Bush administrations....

Little over a week ago, the impossible happened and a lifelong dream came true: The 4-Hour Workweek hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list!

More unbelievable, this week 4HWW is simultaneously #1 on the New York Times and #1 on the Wall Street...

Feeling overwhelmed? Chances are that -- after looking everywhere else -- unclear or cluttered thinking is the root problem.

Have you defined your desired outcome and eliminated the extraneous? Removed all of the busy but non-mission-critical activities that consume attention? Business books and consultants often skip the fundamental shift...