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Simon explains that to sell an idea you need to do it in this order: The WHY, the HOW and then the WHAT. People buy into why you do it it, not what you do. Apple being the great example – they don’t sell computers. They sell their vision, they sell thinking differently.

I was in Uganda last year, my first time in Africa. After some 5 star luxury I doned my backpack and went into the mountains – jungle treks, AK47s, volcanoes, smoking ganja in the ghetto, bungee jumping over the nile and two near death bus rides later I thought I was a pretty hardcore tourist.

But Uganda is pretty safe and stable and full of great friendly people. What I didn’t realise was I have nothing on Shane Smith and Uganda has nothing on Liberia.

Civil war, naked war lords and cannablism.

This, is the Vice Guide to Liberia.

I’ve been a fan of Tim Ferriss since the 4-hour-work-week, a book about being more productive with your time and becoming part of the ‘new-rich’. Tim does experiments in lifestyle design, from outsourcing your life to firing your customers.

What really interest me about Ferriss is his insatiable desire to learn how things work or maybe more specifically, how we learn. He is fluent in 6 languages and has some rather unorthodox methods for learning that he claims can make you fluent in as little as 3 months.

And Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com among other things (rev3, pownce) – the fresh faced poster boy of web development.

I’m not sure how Tim and Kevin came together to do this video series but I’m glad they did. In this video Kevin explains how he got scammed by some Chinese ‘art students’.

China Part 2a from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.