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[queenlua]

• Why Malcom Gladwell Matters (And Why That's Unfortunate). Amusing takedown of that Blink/Outliers/etc guy. See also Culturalism, Gladwell, and Plane Crashes, featuring Gladwell himself arguing on the internet :P


• The Banality of Genius—at first I wasn't sure I really wanted to spam this, as the author's biases are pretty transparent if you've read his other stuff—but I've been turning this one over in my head from time to time for the past couple weeks so I figured it's interesting enough to share.

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[mark_asphodel]

The piece on Gladwell got reposted at Slate, where the comments section was all full of "You hypocrite, your article is all full of the same things you're accusing Gladwell of nyah nyah nyah!"

[queenlua]

haha. that's presh.

[mark_asphodel]

And now Slate has a piece where Gladwell's defending himself against the nasty attacks. Didn't click on it, though.