I'm fascinated with books that deal with the social psychological conscious like Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers/Blink/Tipping Point or Stephen Dubner/Steven Levitt's Freakonomics. I'd love to read more books in the same vein. Any choice authors or books I should check out?...

Last fall, when I started learning about deliberate practice,  I wanted to read Outliers. I wanted to read Talent is Overrated. I went to Borders, armed with a coupon to buy one of them. I looked first for Outliers, having heard more about Malcolm Gladwell than Geoff Colvin. If I was going to read ...

I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that as important as hard work, good planning, etc., are, there was something else at work in my life. Something outside of my control and I wanted to know what it was. I finally decided it was luck—definitely outside my control. I wrote recently abut how...

I have to hand it to Chris Matyszczyk.  His CNET review of Malcolm Gladwell’s already historical and world-famous book, Outliers, is a real snark-fest and quite a jolly little thing.  Here’s an excerpt of Malcolm Gladwell’s story of failure: It is a fine book that takes you many fewer than 1...

I finally got the chance to finish Malcolm Gladwells book 'Outliers' from 2008. I must admit that I didn't read hi's other books 'Blink' and 'Tipping Point', but I knew about him and my expectations was quit high. And I really did enjoy Outliers. The theories in the book are easy understanable and m...

Azi e random fact day. Ma gandeam ca autobuzele iau un numar maxim de 80 de calatori (sau 79+1 carucior cu rotile) si toate sunt optimizate pentru stat jos, spre deosebire de autobuze si troleibuze din alte tari unde se sta mai mult in picioare. Aici probabil ca maxim 14 oameni incap in picioare, s...

‘Sup, readers? So many lectures and books this week, it’s like the platonic ideal of college before college actually started all over again. And speaking of late-adolescent fixations: there’s Malcolm Gladwell and also Howard Zinn talking about his new documentary, A People’s ...

It was business building 101 this morning at OCRI’s monthly Technology Executive Breakfast, with three executives representing different stages of a company’s growth offering pearls of wisdom and insights learned at the School of Hard Knocks. Mark Edwards, president of Bent 360: MediaLab...

I recently started listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success . I’ve enjoyed his other books, and a New Yorker Conference video on the same subject as this book, so I downloaded this one from Audible. I’m not very far in, but I’m quite enjoying i...

Are you aware that reading the pop sociology of Malcolm Gladwell will turn you into a Certified Player (of women)? It's true! Real live pickup artist "The Don" reveals Gladwell's seductive lessons: The Don, who was featured in the New York Post a while back spoke to us, interview-style, and revealed...