Anything that begins by relating an anecdote from a Thomas Friedman piece gets my immediate back button. Friedman is a master at (somehow) conveying his anecdotes as data.
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 "The World is Flat" is a poorly conceived metaphor, applied too broadly, and out of date somewhere before the last of x million copies sold.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.
I 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. :-)
