Comments on: Outsourcing my life — part 1: getting started

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:31:10 +0000

“Delegate Source is a great idea.”
–Tim Ferriss, New York Times #1 Best Selling author of 4-Hour Workweek
http://www.fourhourblog.com

By: Chris Mahan

Chris Mahan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:13:38 +0000

I’m really interested in finding out how that worked out for you. Keep us posted on the details.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:53:09 +0000

Price,

I understand your situation, and mine is much the same in terms of my personal life … but what I’m trying to focus on are the “non-pedestrian” things that I don’t even bother putting on my to-do list, because I know I’ll never have time to do them…
Getting your house cleaned is something you can’t outsource to India, because it requires physical presence.
But if you think about it, the reason the “illegal alien” controversy exists because there are lots of people willing to show up at your house and do “pedestrian” tasks (cleaning, gardening, etc) for a price low enough that many people find it a bargain …

By: Price Taylor

Price Taylor — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:51:01 +0000

This is very thought-provoking. I read Ed’s book “The Decline and Fall of the Anerican Programmer” not long after it came out and it was one of my first eye-openers to globalization.

I’m pretty pedestrian when it comes to outsourcing. We get our house cleaned once per month, and our gutters and windows cleaned once per year. Aside from normal stuff like that, I haven’t done any outsourcing.

I think the concept is interesting…and wonder how “non-typical” personal outsourcing would fit into the life of a small company?

Price

By: Yabu

Yabu — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:02:48 +0000

I’ll outsource a lot of things in my life if I had money to do it

Well…now that I think deper.. ¡I’m outsourcing cleaning! Hey, my life is better than I thougth.