The World is Flat
Wow, this was a long book. More than 24 hours long, according to Audible’s details.
That said, it was a good book. Covered lots of ground and a bunch of interesting point. What I got from the book broke down into two key areas:
- We should make use of the best that the world has to offer (similar points to what I said in my Debugging Indian Computer Programmers write up).
- We’re making lots of mistakes in our handling of the new “flat world” – both in how we’re trying to be protectionist (see #1, above) and how we’re handling the “war on terror”.
Interesting comparisons between the founder of Jet Blue and Osama Bin Ladin (in the sense that they’re both running flat-world organizations). A bunch of ideas/opinions about why terror is spreading around the world and what can be done to stop it. 24 hours was a bit much, but the abridged version probably covers the same sort of topics in far less time.
