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Brand new Backstage podcast featuring "Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell on his new book "Outliers"
Posted by David Hepworth on 1 December 2008 - 9:32pm.
Our Backstage podcasts are a bit of a relief from the relentless levity of their weekly cousins. In these we try to give people who've got something to say the time to say it. In the past they've featured author Neal Stephenson, musician Don Felder and TV producer Mark Cooper among others. You can subscribe to either of them here.
This latest features Malcolm Gladwell, the "New Yorker" writer who made his name with the book "The Tipping Point". Gladwell specialises in taking the lessons of science and applying them to human behaviour. In this podcast he talks to David Hepworth about his new book "Outliers: The Story Of Success" and his own unplanned career path. You can stream the podcast below.
Whay hay!
You lot are great. Half an hour of Gladwell. That'll be saved for the car tomorrow morning.
Not everyone
prostrates themselves unquestioningly before the dandelion-mopped one's erudition, however:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/30/malcolm_gladwell_no/
Having listened
...I can see the point of the writer of the above article. Gladwell's insights are stunning, e.g. (from the Podcast):
"I'm interested in those parts of human lives, and human experience, and human ability, that are the most interesting".
So he's interested in stuff he finds interesting, eh? Glad he cleared that up!
Didn't really say much of note, did he? Though the stuff about working at the New Yorker was fascinating.
I liked his work
When he was with Paul Simon.
Boom
and indeed....Boom....!
Bad Company
Not one to judge a book by its jacket, but....when I looked at the book on Amazon the next most popular item purchased by buyers of the book was the dvd of Mamma Mia