Malcolm Gladwell

Did you know that 14 percent of the self-made billionaires on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest people in the US didn't graduate from college? How about the fact that an unusually high percentage of them were born in the fall? Would you be surprised to learn that many of them are good at math,...

Just because I haven't read a book doesn't stop me from debating it at cocktail parties. I mean, why let something like a lack of information get in the way of forming a strongly held opinion? So what's currently on my mind is "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired...

Power lists are, by their nature, kind of stupid. The idea that something as subjective as influence can be empirically measured and rank-ordered is inherently contentious: Lists are meant to provoke arguments, not agreement. But some power lists are stupider than others. And perhaps the...

Sometimes we stumble across books, movies, or articles that suddenly, with crystal clarity, explain some aspect of our world. Malcolm Gladwell's books do this for me, as does Jay Carter's Nasty People. In an instant, something that was impossible to understand becomes a logical process, and I can...