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Thank You for Being Late
Thank You for Being Late: Pausing to Reflect on the Twenty-First Century | Thomas L. Friedman
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In Thank You for Being Late, 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 change 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 3D printing) or a breaker (the Islamic State excels at using Twitter), but harder than ever to be a leader or merely "average." He 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, Friedman has established a blueprint for how to think about our times.
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MaGoose
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1. The tagged and pictured book.
2. 24
3. My vacation in Rhode Island and Cape Cod, MA
4. A couple of things: seeing my cousin and my 99-year-old uncle when they visit on Thanksgiving; and going to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in December with my Mom for her birthday.
5. @LapReader

#hellothurssday @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 👋🏻😀 6y
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Dr._Who_number10
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@Susanita hahaha I haven‘t done this one sooo let‘s give it a try😂#friyayintro

1:hmmmm all?😂 I had pretty amazing teachers
2:Definitely German❤️
3: ha nope😂 only a freshman
4:Maui?
5: @Susanita

ReadZenRites First one? Nice job! 👍🏻but a freshman? Really? You are one impressive person!😁💕 6y
Dr._Who_number10 @ReadZenRites Awwww thank you😅 and this is my first #friyayintro 6y
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Susanita
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1. 3rd grade was the first year we hadn‘t moved the summer before, so I actually knew some of the kids in my class. The teacher was great too.
2. Spanish
3. Just myspouse and the cat 🤣
4. Barbados
5. I‘m pretty sure everyone has done this by now, but if you haven‘t...
#friyayintro

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Readaholics
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Loving this look at how technology has and will continue changing our society. He has a really good grasp of the disruptive forces that have created new economies in the last few years.

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Andrea4
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1. Being late/last min change of plans/not adhering to a schedule.
2. Cake-hopefully of the cheese variety!
3. Nikita
4. Romance
5. 💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙🍰🎉 #friyayintro virtual love & cake!!!
@jesshowbooks

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Luza
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First book
Reading for pleasure

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Susanita
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1. Pic of weekend plans: usher in main stage pavilion at National Book Festival tomorrow, then boring stuff. 2. Favorite junk food: popcorn. 3. Audiobooks or no? Sure, why not? 4. Looking forward to in September: beach trip. 5. Favorite book-to-movie adaptation: Dr. Zhivago. Oh snap! Edited to add the tag! 🤷🏻‍♀️. #friYAYintro

Betty Beach!!!! Lucky 7y
howjessicareads My BFF was there today!! She debated JD Vance but went Nicola Yoon instead. 🙂 7y
Susanita @jess.how Yeah, there were A LOT of choices. 7y
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AAdamson
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My current book group read. Not usually my cuppa, but it is fascinating.

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GoneFishing

today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.

tpixie Hmm can I unlike?! ❤️📚❤️ 7y
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GoneFishing

We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we‘re done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post! Friedman shows how far & how quickly our world has come in the past few decades. Based on technology's rapidity of progress, he lays out some plans to help society's and individuals' psyches counteract the rhetorical dizziness, by learning to adapt quickly, helping "casualties" of change (including Nature), & accessing our deeper values while shutting out the white noise. He's got another hit here! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

AprilMae We read The World Is Flat in my Global Studied course. It was extremly interesting.📚 7y
kspenmoll Always a concern given so many students I work with with slow processing speeds. 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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SheReadsAndWrites
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Yes. This. Loving this book so far...

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SheReadsAndWrites
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I like to have multiple books going at once. A novel (see previous post 😊) as well as various non-fiction. Picked this one up yesterday. I'm totally intrigued. Anyone read it yet?

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Iebernardo
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A must read. Friedman explains the new world we are leaving.

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GregZimmerman
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Gonna learn some stuff. Gonna try to remain optimistic.