Hacker News with Generative AI: Malcolm Gladwell

Forget Gladwell (ghost.io)
Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers should too
Society, Nonfiction, Writing, Criticism, Malcolm Gladwell
20 points by _tk_ 30 days ago | 5 comments
Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too (nytimes.com)
Twenty-five years after he wrote the best-selling “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell has written a new book on negative virality, “Revenge of The Tipping Point.”
Ideas, Books, Malcolm Gladwell
32 points by _tk_ 30 days ago | 37 comments
Forget Gladwell (ghost.io)
Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers should too
Society, Nonfiction Writing, Malcolm Gladwell, Criticism
11 points by earthboundkid 49 days ago | 2 comments