Cuz, I realized I still have a passion for RM.

this is what i get for being the first one in in the morning

start the coffee, I'm running a bit late

I've been iffy a lot lately.

somebody explain malcolm gladwell's popularity to me.

he put in 10k hours training for coming accross as smart and edgy.

does he post at RM?

he made a career out of handing simple, vacuous truths to people and dressing them up with flowery language

i'm having trouble fitting all of his written output under a single umbrella label... "study of phenomenon" is as specific as i can get. this frustrates me, please help.

I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong.

an eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. but Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring

meh, he's a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning with cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies..

but maybe it's Gladwell's stunning oratory that draws the crowds? perhaps he's such a magnetic performer, that you go for the ride, not the destination?

I apologize, I thought we were talking about Roddy Mcdowall

now you're talking about lenny

that comment highlights a generational gap

It is better to travel well than to arrive - Gotama Buddha

You should read my "Nights that go exactly as planned" thread, Dev. I have no idea what I was talking about, but it sounds existential.

does the girl with the tattoo from the time you went to renew your passport or whatever show up on that thread?

No, but I miss that girl.