August 19, 2002

Perpetual snake oil

In Search of Suckers
On the massive proliferation of business books. And the situation has only worsened in the six years since this article was published. Another argument why arbiters (previously known as middlemen) will never go away: knowledge is more available than ever, but there’s so much of it that the burden has shifted to smart selectivity rather than smart acquisition.

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