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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

CHAPTER

The Importance of Dreams and Memories

Friedman: Friedman is just a guy who every time he thinks of a metaphor Has to put it in the book. He's never like I'm just gonna say that for my wife. This is worse than rich dad, this is pay yourself first levels of bullshitting. It really struck me that maybe this is why he's a popular op-ed writer because if what you were doing Was just turning each of these into Like a punchy little op-ed column totallyI could see how that works Right? But there's also a degree to which his bullshit more directly impacts his thesis one of his worst tendencies is that he will squeeze Any little anecdote that he can find into his

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