Malcolm Gladwell says that he got into journalism by accident, that his real dream was to work for an ad agency. “I decided I wanted to be in advertising. I applied to eighteen advertising agencies in the city of Toronto and received eighteen rejection letters, which I taped in a row on my wall,” he wrote in his What the Dog Saw. If true, then Gladwell didn’t fail at all. Rather, he has achieved his dream of becoming an ad man beyond all expectation.
The
hidden histories of Malcolm Gladwell.
[Previously.]
posted by Sonny Jim
on Jun 8, 2012 -
94 comments
Such are the contradictions that seem to riddle not just Gladwell's thinking but the thinking on Gladwell's thinking, and perhaps even the thinking on thinking on that, and it is precisely these slippery but substantive contradictions that have allowed Gladwell to tout his revolutionary "big ideas" without couching them in anything so mundane as a logical, well-supported or otherwise sound argument. Gladwell for Dummies.
posted by defenestration
on Nov 5, 2009 -
102 comments
Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism. An essay in the latest
The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell. "Atticus Finch is faced with jurors who have one set of standards for white people like the Ewells and another set for black folk like Tom Robinson. His response is to adopt one set of standards for respectable whites like Boo Radley and another for white trash like Bob Ewell. A book that we thought instructed us about the world tells us, instead, about the limitations of Jim Crow liberalism in Maycomb, Alabama."
posted by billysumday
on Aug 10, 2009 -
188 comments
So Predictable - Malcolm Gladwell talks at the recent New Yorker Festival about success-predicting software for the music and film industries.
posted by forallmankind
on Oct 19, 2006 -
18 comments
Blinked is Malcom Gladwell's latest short, concept driven book about how instant judgements are often correct, but equally often dangerous. Two reviews on
S****.com and
S****.com [ad thingie to watch] make for great reading themselves. Gladwell's long been a
favorite of mine, and I
don't think I'm alone here. Previously cited works include one of the best essays I've ever read, about the ultimate
pitchman.
posted by allan
on Jan 13, 2005 -
33 comments
Malcom Gladwell's got a new one in the New Yorker about a guy whose investment strategy positions him to profit from unlikely and scary random catastrophes like 9/11. Its' not on newyorker.com, but the story's
subject was kind enough to scan it and
post it.
posted by luser
on Apr 16, 2002 -
8 comments
The New-Boy Network Finally, the Malcolm Gladwell article describing - all at once! - hiring in the software industry
and the scientific basis of first impressions ia
onliné. I discussed this very story with a recruitrix from MSN just today. It cast a bit of a pall over an otherwise surprisingly pleasant and reassuring interview (held after hours in a café with me wearing shorts).
But I digress.
posted by joeclark
on Jun 28, 2000 -
5 comments
