If you want to work less hours for more money and free yourself from the office, The Four-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss claims to be written for people like you. With talk of mobile work, automation, outsourcing, eliminating distractions and putting your income on auto-pilot, it’s a book created with the web worker very much in mind.

I’m not going to make you read a thousand words before I volunteer some kind of opinion on the book. I liked it a lot. It’s certainly not perfect, but as someone who’s dream is to work less, travel more (often while working), live comfortably and be my own boss, it resonated with me.

Some of you will have already read the book, others will have thought about it, others may never have thought about it and some of you may have decided that it’s not for you. What I want to do here is introduce some of the book’s main ideas in such a way that they might prove useful, or at least get you thinking, even if you never touch the book.

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