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Malcom Gladwell

Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019

Gladwell’s catchphrase factory has shut down

In his new book, “Talking to Strangers,” Malcolm Gladwell writes that poets have “far and away the highest suicide rates,” as much as five times the rate for the general population. The statistic struck Andrew Ferguson, a writer for The Atlantic, as odd, so he tracked down its source: a paper that cited a 1993 book by … Continue reading Gladwell’s catchphrase factory has shut down

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Om Malik is a a San Francisco-based writer, photographer, and investor. He has spent three decades in the trenches of Silicon Valley as a journalist, entrepreneur, and, more recently, as a venture capitalist. He has been writing about the commercial Internet since its birth. Read more

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