Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tomorrow's Just Another Day

In the interests of full disclosure, no, I'm not on Malcolm Gladwell's payroll, but I am here to tell you to pick up his latest effort, Outliers: The Story of Success.

If you've read Gladwell's two previous books, The Tipping Point and Blink, you know that he has a gift for gathering research, studies, and anecdotes from a variety of sources, and then utilizing that material to make an engaging arguments on a number of topics, whether it be the reasons Hush-Puppies shoes became popular once again in the 90's, the ability of some art dealers to spot fakes in a moment's glance, or the reason that an inordinate number of NHL players are born in January, February, or March.

With that said, Malcolm, old buddy, since I have been so kind, if you have any spare change just sitting around, would you mind sending a care-package down to Waco?
You're obviously not using any of it on haircuts.

Update at 8:30 p.m.

Just because I love you, I'm giving you a little Gladwell-video from a recent speaking engagement in San Francisco.

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2 Comments:

At 3:13 PM, Blogger ALV said...

TIME - Hootie & The Blowfish! <3

 
At 8:58 AM, Blogger Luke Reeves said...

Just finished it this morning. Great stuff as usual.

 

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