Great explanation on how social epidemics work: how books become bestsellers, how products get viral and even how crime rates fall. The chapteer about smoking is particularly informing, as it brings light to a lot of vulgar misconceptions about drug use.
I kept thinking about the concepts in this book long after I put it down. While the examples from epidemiology were familiar to me, the application of similar analysis to the spread of other types of epidemics, from fashion trends to the sales of a particular book, was enlightening. A f...
~~Moved from GR~~ The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell This is a brilliant and fantastically well-written popular science account of the importance of networks and complexity in our everyday lives. Even though I do research in this area, the narrative grabbed and held my attention. Every concept...
Holy suppositions, Gladwell! There's a whole lotta coulds, may haves, apparentlies, perhapses up in here!Malcolm Gladwell's basic premise in The Tipping Point: To explain how word-of-mouth is spread.A couple of the examples he used were how crime was reduced in NYC under Giuliani's reign and how an ...
Interesting and compelling book. Gladwell argues that lots of social phenomenon follow the path of epidemics which are caused by three factors: The law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the power of context. He cites lots of psychological and sociological research (some of which I was familiar...
Invaluable book.It is a meta-analysis of factors that seem to play a huge impact on our lives. Mechanisms that we either disregard, downplay or simply fail to recognize.Some will say that Gladwell is "merely" connecting the dots, pulling ideas from others research, and by god they're right. It was o...
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