On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Gora Mohanty <g...@srijan.in> wrote: > Interesting that you should bring that up. I read Outliers a few > months ago, and while it made some interesting points, I was frankly > not very impressed by it, as also another best-selling book with a > somewhat similar outlook, Freakonmics. I think that Gladwell jumps > to conclusions way too readily. > The thing that put me off about the book (but I'd still recommend it as an interesting read) was something he said in the early chapters about BIll Joy or computers or hackers ... I don't remember specifically what it was, but I remember thinking that he wasn't exactly wrong but he wasn't exactly right either. To have that pilot say the same thing about Gladwell's views on aviation brings home the same point. But then it is pop-non-fiction so you can't expect much better. :)
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