#75: Tools and Tricks from the #30 Employee at Facebook
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Noah Kagan was #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint.com, and is the Chief Sumo (founder) at SumoMe, which offers free tools to help grow website traffic. To keep things extra spicy, he's become a taco connoisseur and created 4 separate products that have generated more than 7 figures. This podcast conversation is about all of the tools and tricks he uses to do it all. Noah was my co-teacher in the "Starting a Business" episode of The Tim Ferriss Experiment, which is now the #1 TV season across all of iTunes. In the episode, we help a novice entrepreneur named Cindy to develop and launch her business in a single week. See all the details here, and be sure to watch the bonus hour of behind-the-scenes footage. But back to the current podcast... Noah and I cover a ton, including his favorite tools, apps, books, routines, and more. It ranges from apps for preventing distractions, to how he blocks out time every Tuesday for learning, to how he gained 40 pounds of (mostly) muscle in the last six months or so. Full show notes and links from this episode can be found at fourhourworkweek.com/podcast If you loved the resource-rich business interviews with Ramit Sethi and Tracy DiNunzio, you'll love this one. This podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens (AG), my all-in-one nutritional insurance policy. It's a whole food-derived greens powder that I've used since 2008 or so to cover my bases in a busy world. If I need to skip meals or eat sub-optimal food, AG allows me to worry less. For travel, I take pouches with me to prevent fatigue. For a limited time, you can try AG at 50% off! Click here. It ain't cheap, but I find it totally worth it. This podcast is also brought to you by 99Designs, the world's largest marketplace of graphic designers. Did you know I used 99Designs to rapid prototype the cover for The 4-Hour Body? Here are some of the impressive results. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Sound check. Could you mouth the blue ball for a second and tell me we had for breakfast? |
| 0:05.1 | Today for breakfast I had egg whites, onions, chicken and one slice of bacon. |
| 0:09.8 | How much weight have you gained in the last 12 months? |
| 0:12.6 | 40 pounds. |
| 0:15.4 | Like this, I have the two I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. |
| 0:19.8 | Can I also your personal question? |
| 0:21.8 | Now I just sit in the perfect time. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm a cybernetic organism living this show with a metal-impost killer. |
| 0:30.1 | I need to burn the show. |
| 0:38.1 | This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. |
| 0:40.9 | I get asked all the time what I would take if I could only take one supplement. |
| 0:45.4 | The answer is invariably Athletic Greens. |
| 0:48.5 | I view it as all-in-one nutritional insurance. |
| 0:50.7 | I recommended it, in fact, in the four-hour body. |
| 0:53.4 | This is more than 10 years ago and I did not get paid to do so. |
| 0:57.1 | With approximately 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food source ingredients, |
| 1:01.2 | you'd be very hard-pressed to find a more nutrient-dense and comprehensive formula on the market. |
| 1:05.8 | It has multivitamins, multimineral greens complex, probiotics and prebiotics for gut health and immunity formula. |
| 1:12.2 | Digestive enzymes, adaptogens and much more. |
| 1:15.6 | I usually take it once or twice a day just to make sure I've covered my bases |
| 1:19.9 | if I missed anything I'm not aware of. |
| 1:21.9 | Of course, I focus on nutrient-dense meals to begin with. |
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