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➜ Gladwell defends “smarm”

Malcolm Gladwell responds to “smarm,” defending Dave Eggers and being nice. What defines our era, after all, is not really the insistence of those in authority that we all behave properly and politely....

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➜ More on “smarm”

Ryan Kearney’s criticism of Malcom Gladwell’s criticism of Tom Socca’s criticism of smarm. As Scocca noted on Twitter, “Yeah it’s pretty willfully perverse to read ‘Do not be critics’ to mean ‘Do not...

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Gladwell Doesn’t Like Free

Malcolm Gladwell isn’t buying Chris Anderson’s Free. Why is it a law? Free is just another price, and prices are set by individual actors, in accordance with the aggregated particulars of marketplace...

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Anderson Doesn’t Like Gladwell

This morning, I linked to Malcolm Gladwell’s review of Chris Anderson’s Free. Now Anderson has responded. And he comes off as a bit arrogant.

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Godin Backs Anderson

To recap: Chris Anderson wrote a book (US). Malcolm Gladwell reviewed (and disagreed with) it. Anderson replied. Now Seth Godin is jumping in (uninvited) and backing Anderson by doing that thing he...

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Gladwell Getting Laid

Everything you never wanted to know about Malcolm Gladwell’s sex life. Genius parody or completely creepy? [via]

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Gladwell vs. Pinker

On the one hand, I think it would take an overly self-involved person to email people who review your books. On the other hand, this is pretty great: Gladwell vs. Pinker. [via]

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How to write a Malcolm Gladwell bestseller. Give things names and remember...

How to write a Malcolm Gladwell bestseller. Give things names and remember Douglas Adams’ rule of capital letters. Capital letters make things important. For example, in The Tipping Point, Gladwell...

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Malcolm Gladwell thinks that the revolution will not be tweeted. The...

Malcolm Gladwell thinks that the revolution will not be tweeted. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have...

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Gladwell on being a coffee shop writer. The coffee-shop writer needs to be,...

Gladwell on being a coffee shop writer. The coffee-shop writer needs to be, as the sociologists would say, an outlier and not a pioneer. You don’t want to be the laptop cowboy who signals to other...

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HBO bought a pitch from Malcolm Gladwell. Mercifully, Gladwell’s show is not...

HBO bought a pitch from Malcolm Gladwell. Mercifully, Gladwell’s show is not a non-fiction treatise about how you will never be successful because you are from the wrong zip code and born in the wrong...

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The Onion: Panicked Malcolm Gladwell realizes latest theory foretells end of...

The Onion: Panicked Malcolm Gladwell realizes latest theory foretells end of his popularity.

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Grantland might be exactly what the internet needs — an online magazine with...

Grantland might be exactly what the internet needs — an online magazine with a “simple and elegant graphical style.” Oh yeah, and it’s run by Bill Simmons and includes Chuck Klosterman, Malcolm...

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➜ How to write a best-selling business book

How to write a best-selling business book, even though they are terrible, horrible, awful, useless things to write. Regardless, publishers keep cranking out as many as 11,000 new business books each...

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➜ The Gladwell wannabes

The Malcolm Gladwell wannabes. ★ Permalink

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➜ How bad assumptions can drive creativity

Malcolm Gladwell on Albert O. Hirschman, the “Hiding Hand” and how some of our most creative solutions come from initially making bad assumptions. While we are rather willing and even eager and...

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➜ What matters: the message or the messenger?

Jonah Berger thinks The Tipping Point is a little bit (um… half) bullshit. Berger, on the other hand, says influencers—“those six hipsters in the East Village”—are not actually that important. “There...

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➜ Malcolm Gladwell’s many fairy tales

Gladwell bashing has become its own kind of click bait, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something to it. Gladwell may seem to have devised a new variety of inspirational nonfiction, but it is one...

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