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Official Blog of Jesse Friedman





2026


  • Churchill



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    I just finished Paul Johnson’s Churchill; it is a concise, well-crafted biography that manages to cover remarkable ground in relatively few pages. Johnson writes with clear admiration for Winston Churchill, but he doesn’t let that affection cloud his judgment. The book honestly addresses Churchill’s faults and failures alongside his triumphs, giving readers a balanced portrait…

  • 4 Hour Work-week



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    I just finished The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, and I need to clear up a major misconception right off the bat: this isn’t a book about magically reducing your corporate job to four hours a week while collecting a full salary—it’s about escaping traditional employment altogether to join what Ferriss calls the “New Rich”…

    Book cover of the 4-hour work week by tim ferris