I read The Tipping Point sometime back in the fall and have been waiting to find a cheap or borrowed copy of Blink to read. I'm looking forward to reading simply because whether I agree with everything he says or not Malcolm Gladwell is a great writer. Not great in the great literary sense but great in the sense that he's easy to understanding and incredibly adept at getting his point across without dumbing things down. He's clear and at the same time interesting and entertaining.
Given all of that I'm not sure why I forgot that he's a regular contributor to The New Yorker. I also don't know why I haven't bothered to track down any of his online articles (many of which are at his site- gladwell.com). Some of his more recent stuff can be found through Google and I killed some of the lulls at work last night reading his thought provoking piece on plagiarism.
Apparently there are those out there in blogworld who think Gladwell is overrated and simply states and restates the obvious. Well, if it's so obvious why aren't they becoming famous writing the same stuff? There are doers and there are those who complain about the doers because they didn't do it first.
I just returned Blink to the library a couple of days ago. Intresting read, just like The Tipping Point.
I haven't read too many of his New Yorker articles, but I did read one a few months ago about the idea of "physical geniuses", using examples like Wayne Gretzky, Yo-Yo Ma, and a heart surgeon whose name I forget.
Posted by: Mike M | May 13, 2005 at 12:46 PM