Stephen Colbert Questions Malcolm Gladwell On His Quest For Connections (VIDEO)
Malcolm Gladwell was on "The Colbert Report" last night talking about his new book, "What the Dog Saw". He and Stephen discussed his never-ending curi...
Malcolm Gladwell was on "The Colbert Report" last night talking about his new book, "What the Dog Saw". He and Stephen discussed his never-ending curi...
David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.
The New York Times | STEVEN PINKER | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
Fortunately for "What the Dog Saw," the essay format is a better showcase for Gladwell's talents, because the constraints of length and editors yield ...
craptheblog.tumblr.com | Moe Tkacik | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Page 120 of Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail addresses the problem of bankers being too dumb to read. (Hey, you can't say Gladwell didn't warn us ...
Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.
Carl Honore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is time to let ideas simmer on the back burner. It yields rich, nuanced insights and sometimes surprising breakthroughs.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Malcolm Gladwell told TIME magazine that he would tell aspiring young journalists today to skip journalism school and study something else instead. "...
Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
Your weekly book review round-up: The Wild Things, Dave Eggers The San Francisco Chronicle The reader knows from the picture book how the story will...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Amidst the thousands of management tomes published every year, there are only a few truly influential collections of business wisdom. But measuring th...
Darya Pino | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
While it's true that taste is subjective, I've never heard a convincing argument that it's better to dislike a food than to like it. It is certainly more fun to like things, and it is often far more convenient.
Martha St Jean | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
When you are working with an unstable system, like the stock market or a gun battle or both having too much on your mind will slow you down.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
What makes for uber-success? It is not sheer intellect, and it's not only social skill. It is, as Malcolm Gladwell defines talent, deliberate practice.
Don McNay | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on a higher goal that they forget about the people who help get them there.
Charles Warner | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
After reading Gladwell's review (which, to Anderson's point and ironically, is free on the New Yorker's website), I got the distinct impression that Gladwell was being a little jealous and piqued.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Recovery, making a life of contribution despite and with a mental illness, is about hope and belief and patience and persistence.
Tim Berry | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
In his book Free, Chris Anderson gathered the wood and laid out the fire by saying news, information, music, and films are going to be free.
Danny Groner | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment
Reading aloud from their books, authors hope that readers will relate to the material, its characters, themes, comedic moments and underlying messages. When writers can convey these elements themselves, it's even more potentially provocative and lucrative.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living
In today's world, many students in the U.S. schools aren't taught to work hard.
Sanjay Khanna | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?
Dan Dubno | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
Everyone who has predicted the demise of paper has so far been completely wrong. But that was before the advent of a fully-functional full-figured e-book reader.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
Only a very few of have a certain level of gift that is completely beyond anything 10,000 or even a million hours of focused work can give you. These are the geniuses. And their gift came from inside.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
I've learned, however, not to dignify the "gut reactions" of bigotry with any kind of value. This is how moral progress takes place: we learn to stop trusting the gut reactions based on falsehoods we've been taught.
Aisha Tyler | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy
Thankfully for recovering childhood nerds like me, geeks have recently, finally, come into vogue. Witness the ambivalent, doughy sexiness of a Seth Rogen, or the oddly attractive post-pubescent cool of a Michael Cera
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books