The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
There is no point in getting started
until it happens. It applies to fat-loss as much as strength gain, to endurance as much as sex. No
matter how many bullet points and recipes I provide, you will need a Harajuku Moment to fuel
the change itself.
Chad Fowler knows this.
Chad, CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in
the Ruby computer language. He is also co-organizer of the annual RubyConf and RailsConf
conferences, where I rst met him. Our second meeting was in Boulder, Colorado, where he
used his natural language experience with Hindi to teach a knuckle-dragger (me) the primitive
basics of Ruby.
Chad is an incredible teacher, gifted with analogies, but I was distracted in our session by
something he mentioned in passing. He'd recently lost 70+ pounds in less than 12 months.
It wasn't the amount of weight that I found fascinating. It was the timing. He'd been obese for