Hello everyone, I hope all is well with you. I’m back today after a week of work and writing. I’m getting ready for the holidays. I’m thinking about Christmas shopping, and I’ve been putting together a list. The kids are hard to buy for since they’ve gotten older, so shopping is a challenge. But enough about that. Today, I want to talk about what I’ve been reading.
I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Revenge of the Tipping Point.” The cover and blurb are below.
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Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.
Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.
My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this book. It was informative and made me think, like all of his books do. It showed how some ivy league colleges are able to maintain their ethnic percentages by using social engineering and the magic of the third. It explained how the Covid Pandemic started. It explained super spreaders. People, who have unique physical characteristics that allow them to spread disease to many people in a short amount of time. He then applied this same concept to the Opioid epidemic and illustrated how it only took a handful of doctors who over-prescribed Oxycontin to create the epidemic. The book illustrated that not all states were affected by the epidemic, and he explained why. It shows how small actions can have a big impact. It’s very intriguing, and he lays it all out in a methodical and understandable way. I would recommend this book. It’s not dry. It’s informative and a must read.
How about you? What have you been reading? Leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!
