Tim Ferriss, the world’s most famous life coach, advises learning coding to automate!

Learn Automation for a better career and life with a regular sense of satisfaction and joy.

Zhimin Zhan
5 min readApr 22, 2024

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Today, I saw a LinkedIn feed by Tim Ferriss.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7153977852768456705/

It links to an old article written by Clive Thompson (a Journalist), that Tim posted on his blog in March 2019. Here, I show a few quotes.

Code every day. This is a big one. You should try to do some coding every day — at least, say, a half hour.”

I’m not going to quit my job to build a software company or get hired as a coder. But coding makes me more efficient, more empowered, at my job and in everyday life, often in weird and delightful ways.

Don’t learn to code, learn to automate,” writes the coder Erik Dietrich. This is bang on.

“I’ve written tons of other scripts to automate boring things.”

“So one enormous pleasure in learning to code is that you begin to see how you can automate many difficult, onerous tasks.”

“Nearly every white-collar job on the planet involves tons of work that can be done more efficiently if you know a bit of coding.”

“when you fix the bug, and things start working — there’s a sudden, narcotic rush

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.