Skip to main content

Thank You For Being Late : Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman is an author of “Thank you for being late” , three  times Pulitzer winner and award winning NYT columnist. He talks about the topic on which he wrote the book was an optimistic guide into the thriving age of acceleration. The title of the book was actually an incident happened with him when he went on a breakfast and the person came late due to traffic issue. It gave time to Thomas to pause and reflect the surrounding world and how fast it evolve. This event provoke him to write a book on the topic because the author believes that when people get free time, they pause their busy life and think, self-reflect, imagine and relax. Author said the book have two halves and its about today’s world that how it works with people and culture. According to Thomas Friedman the world is reshaping it can be good or bad, you need to understand the three largest forces and these are Moore’s law, Globalisation and Mother nature which are bio-diversity and climate change. These accelerations are transforming the workplace, politics, geo-politics, ethics and community. Author emphasizes on Moore’s law and said that it was predicted that the number of transistors will double in about two year according to Moore’s law. The author then explained the exponential increase in computing powers and 2007 was a major changing point. The facebook and Twitter started and went global , Steve Jobs introduced iPhone, the advancement in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors , networking and the creation of new technology platform. According to Thomas this platform is reshaping everything, he called it “supernova”. He showed us that how can we anchor ourselves as an individual in this century to save the world or to destroy it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Summary Of 110 Techniques Of Communication And Public Speaking

Summary Of 110 Techniques Of Communication And Public Speaking : In the talk presented to us , the speaker David JP Philips has comprehend his study on the techniques of communication and public speaking . His study , on over five thousand individual speakers, belonging to various phases of their profession, has helped him gain insight on to ways, how one can excel at public speaking and communication. In this talk David JP Philips displays a chart on various traits that a public speakers should adopt. The chart has been divided in five major categories namely voice, body language, facial expressions, language and  Ultimate level. These presentation skills, as discussed in the talk are necessary to attract the audience and hook them up to what is being said . Furthermore David JP Philips talks about his five most favourite skills that according to him every person should excel in order to make an impactful presence , he begins with emphasizing on the importance of an open bo...
Post a Comment
Read more

RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL:

The debate presented  to us, chaired by Emily Maitlis presenter of The BBC Newsnight, was about the topic that “The world should recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital” and there were four speakers. Ehud Omert and Natasha Hausdorff were in the favour of the topic and against them were Jack straw and Ghada karmi. The decision of Donald Trump of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and also to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem embarks an outrage among many states world wide. The Palestinian’s ambassador Dr. Husam Zomlot and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that Trump’s move will declare a war on about 1.5 billion Muslims and could  plunge the world into a fire with no end in sight and this dispute is described as one of the most intractable issues in Israel - Palestine conflict. Other countries also warn them that the recognition of Jerusalem as a capital would be a mortal blow for the Israel- Palestine peace project. As yo...
Post a Comment
Read more

21 Ways To Double Your Productivity :-

 BRIAN TRACY : 21 Ways To Double Your  Productivity :- Starting with the famous quote of  Brian Tracy , a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self -development author “People with clear, written goals , accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine”. According to him every successful men and women apply the method of planning to their daily life because planning your day in advance is very beneficial in boosting your daily productivity and at the end of the day give you the sense of accomplishment and motivates you to end the task before its deadline. Develop self-discipline in your life. Successful  people always think on paper , to be successful in your life you have to think the same way as them and write your goals on paper. To make a list first you have to decide how you want your life to be in future , what are your desires and you have to be clear about them . Clarity  about what you want or c...
Post a Comment
Read more