Thank you for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations is a non-fiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author.

He begins by sharing a conversation with a fellow blogger, who also happened to be working as a parking attendant.

The unlikely pair ended up spending time together as Friedman helped the blogger refine his process.

This led to his own deeper reflection on defining his conceptual framework that underpinned his writing.

John Micklethwait CBE, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News,[1] who reviewed Thank you for Being Late[2] for The New York Times, wrote that this is Friedman's "most ambitious book — part personal odyssey, part common-sense manifesto".