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FAQ ME
For the past year, people have asked me questions every Thursday through Twitter Q&A sessions and also, privately, through emails. I've then compiled the best questions, expanded my answers, and provided much original material to create this book, "FAQ ME".
- GenresNonfiction
262 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 3, 2012
19 people are currently reading
133 people want to read
About the author
James Altucher
43 books988 followersJames Altucher is a writer, successful entrepreneur, chess master, and investor.
He has founded over 20 companies and sold some of them for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of many companies.
He has written and been profiled in most major national media publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, and Business Week.
His blog, which began by detailing Altucher's precipitous fall from wealth and success to absolute rock bottom and then back to wealth, has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010, and in 2011 inspired a comic book.
He has founded over 20 companies and sold some of them for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of many companies.
He has written and been profiled in most major national media publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, and Business Week.
His blog, which began by detailing Altucher's precipitous fall from wealth and success to absolute rock bottom and then back to wealth, has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010, and in 2011 inspired a comic book.
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May 3, 2012
I guess it was only a matter of time before someone turned their formspring into a "book." Or in this case, responses to a weekly Q&A session held via Twitter. You can only write 140 words at a time on Twitter, so obviously this isn't just like a million tweets compiled in a .mobi file. He responds at length to questions he was originally asked (and I guess responded to) via Twitter. The responses are all more or less the same, and you already know them if, like me, you've read the other selections in the Altucher Book of the Month Club: go to bed madd early; avoid dealing with people who suck balls, even if their your own relatives (impossible if you work in retail); read and write every day, so on and so forth. Never mind whether or not your question had to do with when you should go to bed. I'll probably continue to read these Altucher books up until the point where starts to publish full-on gibberish with no intelligible words or anything, because I find him amusing and it's probably not the worst advice in the world.
November 22, 2015
This was the first book by James Altucher I read. I loved the parts regarding charisma. My main takeaways: speak the truth and when you do, your words have power. People start listening to you. James' style isn't for everyone since at times it feels a little disjointed. But for me, I like the raw style of his writing.
February 10, 2013
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FAQ ME is a book filled with wisdom, based on James Altucher's weekly Q&A sessions that he holds on Twitter (on @jaltucher every Thursday from 3:30 - 4:30pm EST). James uses this one hour Q&A session every week to answer any question that anyone has. James doesn't admit to having the right answer, but he is open, honest and credible given his vast amount of life experiences and failures. His audience is able to ask him any question from a wide range of topics including: startups, marriage, divorce, jobs, careers, anxiety, fear, love and depression (each of which he has multiple experiences with). As a result of these weekly sessions, James has a warchest of Q&A with his followers and uses these conversations to build the book "FAQ ME".
The openness that James answers these questions is nothing short of incredible. He walks the talk; stressing that honesty is the most important tenet, he is very honest about all his experiences, the challenges he faced and how he rose up from it. His life is an open book to his audience; I have been a twitter follower of his for a while now and his words are not only inspiring, but refreshing... Refreshing to know that someone out there with his experiences of making money and losing it all multiple times knows that the value of a life is not the monetary worth, but the spiritual happiness that emanates from all your experiences. He is so honest, that he has people close to him not appreciating his candor. Understandable, but still refreshing.
I really enjoyed reading through the various categories of these Frequently Asked Questions (=FAQ), but also found it very repetitive. What you may find in a section of Failure, you would find in Entrepreneurship and even Depression. I understand that repetition is a good tool in reinforcing an idea, but sometimes the same exact sentences (or slight alterations of them) were repeated. Also, James really needs a few people to go through his work. He has self-published the work, and a reader will appreciate his raw language that feels more like you are conversing with James rather than reading his words. Having said that, you can't really avoid noticing the myriads of typos, grammatical errors, etc. James, if you read this, I am more than happy to review your next book.
James actually provides an interesting holistic way of living life, by training the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental to achieve overall health. Read the book to find out his life methodology; beware, he repeats it more than a few times in the book.
Review: 3.5 / 5. This book is definitely a great read. I learned so much about James and his openness shows the purity of his logic. There is little I disagreed and it actually clarified a lot of what has been in my head. It is inspiring as well as educational. Having said that, it was difficult for me to endure all the typos and glaring errors without which it would have been a 4 star. And without all the repetition, it would definitely be a 5 star. I look forward to reading FAQ ME TOO!
FAQ ME is a book filled with wisdom, based on James Altucher's weekly Q&A sessions that he holds on Twitter (on @jaltucher every Thursday from 3:30 - 4:30pm EST). James uses this one hour Q&A session every week to answer any question that anyone has. James doesn't admit to having the right answer, but he is open, honest and credible given his vast amount of life experiences and failures. His audience is able to ask him any question from a wide range of topics including: startups, marriage, divorce, jobs, careers, anxiety, fear, love and depression (each of which he has multiple experiences with). As a result of these weekly sessions, James has a warchest of Q&A with his followers and uses these conversations to build the book "FAQ ME".
The openness that James answers these questions is nothing short of incredible. He walks the talk; stressing that honesty is the most important tenet, he is very honest about all his experiences, the challenges he faced and how he rose up from it. His life is an open book to his audience; I have been a twitter follower of his for a while now and his words are not only inspiring, but refreshing... Refreshing to know that someone out there with his experiences of making money and losing it all multiple times knows that the value of a life is not the monetary worth, but the spiritual happiness that emanates from all your experiences. He is so honest, that he has people close to him not appreciating his candor. Understandable, but still refreshing.
I really enjoyed reading through the various categories of these Frequently Asked Questions (=FAQ), but also found it very repetitive. What you may find in a section of Failure, you would find in Entrepreneurship and even Depression. I understand that repetition is a good tool in reinforcing an idea, but sometimes the same exact sentences (or slight alterations of them) were repeated. Also, James really needs a few people to go through his work. He has self-published the work, and a reader will appreciate his raw language that feels more like you are conversing with James rather than reading his words. Having said that, you can't really avoid noticing the myriads of typos, grammatical errors, etc. James, if you read this, I am more than happy to review your next book.
James actually provides an interesting holistic way of living life, by training the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental to achieve overall health. Read the book to find out his life methodology; beware, he repeats it more than a few times in the book.
Review: 3.5 / 5. This book is definitely a great read. I learned so much about James and his openness shows the purity of his logic. There is little I disagreed and it actually clarified a lot of what has been in my head. It is inspiring as well as educational. Having said that, it was difficult for me to endure all the typos and glaring errors without which it would have been a 4 star. And without all the repetition, it would definitely be a 5 star. I look forward to reading FAQ ME TOO!
June 9, 2013
I follow James on twitter and I like very much all of his articles on Techcrunch.com, that's why I started reading this book. Btw, you can download 3 of his books for free from his website, I chose "I was blind but now I see", "40 alternatives to college" and this one, "FAQ me". I was caught by the brilliant title, so i started from FAQ me, that is a collection of twitter questions&answers between James and his followers.
Well, I don't agree totally with him but I appreciate the honesty and candor of his answers..He answers to the question referring (almost) always to his personal life experiences.. The book is funny, easy to read.. Maybe a little bit repetitive but I guess it is normal, it has not a real plot but is a collection of advises organized by themes.. 3 stars
Well, I don't agree totally with him but I appreciate the honesty and candor of his answers..He answers to the question referring (almost) always to his personal life experiences.. The book is funny, easy to read.. Maybe a little bit repetitive but I guess it is normal, it has not a real plot but is a collection of advises organized by themes.. 3 stars
January 5, 2014
Another great James Altucher book, this time in Q&A format from questions readers submitted to his blog. He is always respectful (even when they are not), and his answers are straightforward and full of wisdom if not always entirely wise.
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