In my last post, I gave my review of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. Craig Randall, one of EMC’s Distinguished Engineers and fellow EMC blogger, asked a lot of thoughtful questions about my reaction to the book. I decided to just write another post answer all his questions. Craig is actually who got me interested in [...]
More reflection on Outliers
January 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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Outliers – My review
January 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments
I just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The book looks at how individuals or people from certain cultures become successful. He rightly attributes success to community – but I have a really hard time getting a fix on just what his community lens is.
For example, there is a section about geniouses. Gladwell talks (almost [...]
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