Looking forward to discussing Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Did this book change your thoughts on anything? Has your behavior changed? Compare & contrast with THE TIPPING POINT. Do people like Malcolm Gladwell fill an important role these days? If so, what is it? And what about that hair?? Come prepared to talk!! Here are some links....
- Official Blink website, with Q&A & excerpts
- suggested additional reading
- Reading guide - chapter 1 only :: for other chapters, click on the right side or download or open & print the PDF file.
- Malcolm's apologia & disclosure essay :: which I enjoyed, but found obsessive.
- gladwell dot com - the new yorker archive :: Many of his New Yorker articles are quite interesting and because he doesn't have to fill 200 pages, less repetitive and better edited.
- New York Times Review > 'Blink': Hunch Power
- Blink reviewed by Salon.com
- Blink reviewed by Esquire
- Amazon.com: Reviews for Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: Books: Malcolm Gladwell :: Amazon customer reviews sorted by "most helpful" first
- Metacritic on Blink... many links
- NY Times profile of Gladwell
- Powells Interview with Malcolm Gladwell
- NextD Journal 8.2 - Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell
- IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell
- ESPN talks to Gladwell about Blinking Sports
- Baseball Toaster: Bronx Banter : Quick Six
- Blink (book) on Wikipedia
- The Accidental Guru | Article in Fast Company Magazine
- Gladwell’s Brain - article in the Washingtonian
- why-malcolm-gladwell-wants-
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- Malcolm Gladwell - Videos : links to videos at various speeds provided by his speaking agency.
- TED Blog: Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks
- WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
- U bling for 'Blink' - Variety.com (Blink, the movie!)
- Ed Batista: Think Blink: Malcolm Gladwell's Lessons for Web Design, Part 2
- Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds. - By Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki - Slate Magazine :: emails from: Malcolm Gladwell to: James Surowiecki on How To Improve the Decision-Making Environment; this looks interesting....
- Gottman Institute.. How's Your Relationship? Quiz
- Gottman: The Mathematics of Love
- Project Implicit® -- the test... how biased are you??
- Male/Female brains -- Empathy tests
- Princeton News - "Blind" Auditions Help Women, New Study Suggests
- The officer who predicted Saddam's moves. - Slate :: Yes, it really happened.
- The Man Who Kicked Blue Team's Ass ... with other links following
- Army Times on the Millennium Games... yikes!
- Here's Kenna, the musician, and samples of his music
- The Inner and Outer Meanings of Facial Expressions
- PROPOSAL Audience Organization Current Working Group Relation to AAA Purposes
- ARTNATOMY/ARTNATOMIA - Home
- Facial Action Coding System
- Unmasking the Face: Books: Paul Ekman,Wallace V. Friesen
- Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life: Books: Paul Ekman
- And if you want more on this subject.... Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
3 comments:
Read enough of Gladwell to know I'm so jealous I could spit! I have consciously made decisions using rt. brain activity for years - even took that intuitive "quick" process and went backwards into a scoring system IBM managers could use after interviewing. In my "corporate" life I was in charge of hiring from college campuses for the east coast - and trained others. I had enough time to try my methods and see how they worked over years. How come I couldn't have seen that as anything novel, or transferable, or profound?? I learned one brilliant thing - my "blink" technique never worked just after I had lunch! my technique got sloppy. learned never to interview then! I forgot to tell you I really liked Malcolm's apologia and disclosure essay and had no trouble following it right to the end. I am interested in what you found "obsessive" about it? I thought it was pretty straight forward, and again I learned a lot from it.
I actually liked it a lot too, as it showed he thought about what he was doing and what it might mean. By obsessive, I really just meant he went on and on and could have tightened up his writing a bit. I found the style of that essay more self-indulgent than he usually is, although.... I'm sure his books & New Yorker pieces are edited more vigorously (or have strict space requirements) as opposed to an entire webpage on his personal site.... with little over-sight!
I have finished BLINK, cannot wait for the discussion and have a couple of great links, but I am not savvy enough to do anything more than "direct" you to Salon (book section and type in blink) and same with Slate (Arts and Entertainment and type in blink). The Slate is particularly interesting because it consists of letters between Malcolm Bladwell and James Surowiecki discussing the differences and similarities between BLINK and WISDOM OF THE CROWDS....check it out.
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