Dan Markham

Two reviews, one popular source. One offers praise for, the other pans, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book: “Outliers”. You. Make. The call: Chance & Circimstance, by David Leonhardt or It’s True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help by Michiko Kakutani. Both of the New York Times. I wonder if these two get along very well at work.

Speaking of Gladwell, the validity of one of the theories he went into depth about in his first hit book, The Tipping Point, has been put to the test by a researcher in the Netherlands from University of Groningen. Short version: the “broken windows theory” still holds. via Gruber

The naturalistic and the moralistic: “Two Logical Fallacies we Must Avoid”. Wherin one thinks either that one ought because there is or that there is because one ought. Good comments as well.