A collection of shorts that Gladwell has mostly published in the New Yorker and thus I have seen most of them. Few good pieces and the ones I liked:The Ketchup Conundrum: Why is there only one type of ketchup and yet a gazillion different mustards?
Blowing Up: Small world, an article on Nassim Taleb and you know it is next to impossible to invest with him...check out the website sometime.
True Colors: Who knew it used to be taboo to date a woman who colored her hair?
John Rock's Error: If you're a woman don't read this article or you might be amazed how Catholicism caused a whole lot of your hormone issues.
Connecting the Dots: Hindsight is twenty/twenty...much like in the Black Swan learning to look at things a little differently might help you along but could you connect the dots before something happens?
Blowup: "Over the past few years, a group of scholars has begun making the unsettling argument that the rituals that follow things like plane crashes or The Three Mile Island crisis are as much exercises in self-deception as they are genuine opportunities for reassurance. For these revisionists, high-technology accidents may not have clear issues at all. They may be inherent in the complexity of the technological systems we have created."
The New Boy Network: Just a glimpse, who needs an interview, that is all it takes to hire someone...frightening
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