Malcolm Gladwell LetsRun Shoutout on JRE

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4 years ago 11/16/2019 4:41pm EST

re: Donutholes

In age group hockey in Canada a player born December 15th was moved up to a higher age group while a player born January 2nd was kept in the younger age category. The point is subtle but true by MG. The kid in the younger age group miraculously appears talented and is shuttled off to the competitive team program where ice time and competitive opportunities may be as much as 10X that of the house league kids. The pattern is seen in age group track too. May be a Canadian thing though - just like higher intelligence. (This may be MG posting)

4 years ago 11/16/2019 4:44pm EST

re: doot doot

doot doot wrote:
Roughly 64 minutes into the audio version.
Marathon cheat police, baby ?
hashtag stolenvalor
Editor's Note - Link to the video below (skip to the 59:30 mark):
https://youtu.be/Okg2LH6XKzY?t=3565

Gladwell is a pathetic Russian / Putin apologist. He should be deported immediately and Canada should then send him to Dagestan so he can prove how manly he is and how well he fits in with those he defends.

He has a house in the town I live in in upstate New York and I see him in the gym from time to time . Back in the spring he was leaving the locker room wearing a red shirt that said CANADA with the maple leaf . I asked him “ Aren’t you Cam Levins?” He got embarrassed and said he wasn’t Levins but knew him .”

Next time I see him I’ll ask if he is Rojo ,

4 years ago 11/16/2019 5:33pm EST

re: What up Donut?

What up Donut? wrote:
In age group hockey in Canada a player born December 15th was moved up to a higher age group while a player born January 2nd was kept in the younger age category. The point is subtle but true by MG. The kid in the younger age group miraculously appears talented and is shuttled off to the competitive team program where ice time and competitive opportunities may be as much as 10X that of the house league kids. The pattern is seen in age group track too. May be a Canadian thing though - just like higher intelligence. (This may be MG posting)

Wow, 10X the competitive opportunities? Did you quantify that as scientifically as the 10,000 hour rule?

4 years ago 11/17/2019 2:28am EST

re: doot doot

Talking to Strangers is a very disappointing book. The premise--why we misunderstand strangers--is at once vaguely interesting and so self-evident to hardly warrant a book-length response. The problem is that the book's scope is so vast, and it's limits so poorly defined (turns out 'strangers' can be people you know pretty well, people you work with, and people you've never laid eyes on), that Gladwell isn't able to offer much in the way of a solution to the so-called 'stranger problem.' It's weird. Gladwell seems to believe what he's writing, but I do wonder if at this point his publishers are just milking him, and he's going along with it.

4 years ago 11/17/2019 4:40pm EST

re: MilkingMalcolmGladwell

Gladwell is a genius. He takes ordinary problems and things we all think about, then entertains us with deep thoughts and investigations, turned into brilliant stories. His Revisionist History episode on why golf is absurd is amazing. There are complex ideas and examples backing up his opinion as to why golf is dumb. And who else out there can not only back up their opinions in a manner like that, but also make a living doing it? Kudos to him.

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