“ Meanwhile, back to Anderson vs Gladwell: in reality, both writers aren’t that different: my bet is that if you do blind taste tests on their books, it would be hard to figure out who wrote which. Both of them have built lucrative careers peddling somewhat interchangable and at times indistinguishable ideas: abundance vs scarcity, wisdom of crowds, network effect, david vs goliath, and a “a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study” to prove their points
June 29, 2009
