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Book Review: "Outliers" – by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell This book, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest, focuses on something completely different from his earlier ones, “The Tipping Point,” and “Blink.”…

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Book Review: "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell After listening to this book twice, I am beginning to appreciate…

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Book Review: "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell This is Malcolm Gladwell‘s second book after “The Tipping Point.”  In The Tipping Point, Gladwell writes…

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Posted in Articles Books Psychology

Advantages of Disadvantages

In his book “David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell talks about cases where an apparent disadvantage may have helped an individual to actually perform better. He…

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Posted in Misc Technology Web

Would This Be Design-2.0 Or Social-Designing?

Have you thought of a feature or an application that you wished your PC or Notebook  supported? What if you could design it yourself? WePC.com…

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Posted in Psychology

Too Many Choices Ruin The Sale

In his book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell describes an experiment where a store that offered over twenty different types of jam sold significantly less jam than…

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Posted in Books Web

Trapping Mavens With The Web

In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell coins the term “maven trap.” Mavens are experts in a particular field who are always trying to…

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Posted in Books Psychology

What You See Is What You "Think" You Get

In his book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell writes about “Sensation Transference.” He describes what a beer manufacturer realized when they tried to figure out why their…

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How Pilots Think in the Blink of an Eye

I just completed listening to the audio-book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell and started listening to “How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman (review coming soon). I…

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Posted in Psychology

Implicit Association Tests: Do You Know What You Really Think?

While listening to the audio book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell (review coming soon), I came across some examples of IAT tests. These are tests where…

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My Audible Book Collection

Looking at my audio-book library that I have collected from my almost 2-year subscription to audible.com, I am pretty sure that if I had bought…

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Irrational Economics

Ever since I stumbled upon the book Predictably Irrational, I have been fascinated by the field of behavioral economics. I have looked for other books…

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Nodding Is Believing

I am currently listening to the audio verion of the book “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference“ by Malcom Gladwell….

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