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Agreed. "The World is Flat" is a poorly conceived metaphor, applied too broadly, and out of date somewhere before the last of x million copies sold. We (we bein
by ojbyrne 18y ago
Agreed. "The World is Flat" is a poorly conceived metaphor, applied too broadly, and out of date somewhere before the last of x million copies sold. We (we being the denizens of the suddenly flattened world) all hope never to hear from Thomas Friedman again in our lifetimes.
Sort of like Tim Ferris.
- mhartl 18y agoI agree about the Friedman bit, but not about Tim Ferriss. Parts of 4HWW (including the title) are horribly oversold, but there's gold in them thar hills. (And, to carry the analogy to Friedmanesque extremes, there ain't no hills in a flat world. :-)
- Psyonic 18y ago4HWW has a few good bits, but every time he mentioned TNR (The New Rich) I wanted to vomit. Did he really need a term for that?