
Thank You for Being Late
An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
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Oliver Wyman
A field guide to the 21st century, written by one of its most celebrated observers
In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it.
Due to an exponential increase in computing power, climbers atop Mount Everest enjoy excellent cell phone service, and self-driving cars are taking to the roads. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens. Meanwhile, Mother Nature is also seeing dramatic changes as carbon levels rise and species go extinct, with compounding results. How do these changes interact, and how can we cope with them?
To get a better purchase on the present, Friedman returns to his Minnesota childhood and sketches a world where politics worked and joining the middle class was an achievable goal. Today, by contrast, it is easier than ever to be a maker (try 3-D printing) or a breaker (the Islamic State excels at using Twitter) but harder than ever to be a leader or merely average. Friedman concludes that nations and individuals must learn to be fast (innovative and quick to adapt), fair (prepared to help the casualties of change), and slow (adept at shutting out the noise and accessing their deepest values). With vision, authority, and wit, Thank You for Being Late establishes a blueprint for how to think about our times.
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Best of his books so far
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Insightful
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Interesting Discussion of The New Age of Technology
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Fascinating and thought provoking.
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Fact filled but region biased
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Amazing Book
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Would you try another book from Thomas L. Friedman and/or Oliver Wyman?
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The narrative bringing the various components of the technology boom together was helpful to understand how we get from a point in history to now and beyond. The back 1/3 of the book felt like it belonged all by itself as a narrative surrounding an interesting social experiment with interesting people.Have you listened to any of Oliver Wyman’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes. SimilarDid Thank You for Being Late inspire you to do anything?
Attempt to keep up with changes in tech and be less rigid in what roles various tech will play in our lives.Two books
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As always, great book by Friedman.
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I lit bit repetitive
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The part where he explains how he grew up is interesting on its own, but it and how Minnesota is “on to something,” drag out far too long. His opinion that this points towards how to address the challenges from the wider accelerations isn’t very compelling to me, but I love his overall optimism.
I would highly recommend this book,, but would warn that this last part is long and maybe skimming a good way to approach it!
First Part is Great, then…
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