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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

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The Compounding Effect of Thomas Friedman

I too was searching for India's riches. Columbus was searching for hardware precious metals silk and spices the sources of wealth in his day I was searching for software brainpower complex algorithms knowledge workers call centers transmission protocols break throughs and optical engineering Okay It's a land of contrasts This is different in these really obvious ways right so this is like high school term paper level observations Yeah, it's also calling metals Silk and spices hardware Yeah, and then like workers and call centers are software for some reason I Don't quite what you love your brain is like fried from 600 pages of this because I'm like The compounding effect of this is like I had a whole section of this episode that I was just

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