Steve Levitt: Something odd happens to me when I read Gladwell’s books and when I read [David Epstein’s] Range. The stories are so fascinating and… Read More »Steve Levitt on the user experience of reading David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell
He understood money, and he understood money because he felt it had been a thorough education in its value and function back home on the… Read More »Malcolm Gladwell on the disadvantages of wealth
This is from a great New Yorker article – I recommend checking out the whole thing. He refers to the researchers at Xerox Parc (often… Read More »Malcolm Gladwell on creativity, quality and quantity
Outliers is an excellent place to start. It features the story of Mozart’s “genius” and the Beatle’s “overnight success” told through the lens of the… Read More »Stories of deliberate practice
Repetition is the mother of skill Tony Robins* Tony Robins is mostly right. 10,000 hours You’re probably familiar with the 10,000 hour rule as ‘discovered’… Read More »Anders Ericsson on deliberate practice
How do tools – ideas and understandings, practices, and real physical tools – get to the people who need them? Some tools may only need… Read More »How tools spread
In the first full episode of the Broken Record podcast, Malcolm Gladwell chats to Rick Rubin about the start of his journey to becoming a… Read More »Where’s the scene?