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Malcolm Gladwell

Chris Anderson’s “Free” for Free

July 8, 2009

There’s been much hoorah and hoopla surrounding Chris Anderson’s latest book “Free”. Part of it is due to the fact that he plagiarized Wikipedia entries. Part of it is due to Malcolm Gladwell disagreeing with Chris’s reasoning and then Seth Godin disagreeing with Gladwell’s. Part of it of course is also due to Chris himself [...]

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Timing: The Importance Of Time and Information

February 25, 2009

Imagine buying a house the day before the market went bust. Imagine being a Senior in university and having spent the last 3 years studying finance. Imagine changing jobs just to learn a week later that the company that hired you is filing bankruptcy. Imagine someone starting a family at the exact time that the [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell On The Beatles’ Success

February 10, 2009

My current daily commute read is Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success. Like many books in this genre, it is one that has a singular main point with chapters and chapters of case studies and examples. Gladwell’s main point in his latest work is that an individual’s success has as much to do with [...]

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