This is a book about unusual successes, as the term "outliers" would imply to anyone familiar with statistics.

Anyone who likes Malcolm Gladwell. Do you want to fall down a rabbit hole of interesting research and anecdotes, all edging toward some general concept? That's what he does. And he does it well.

Honestly, I like Gladwell's style. Structurally, it is questionable and rambling. A friend recently compared Gladwell to sitting on a porch listening to an old man spin stories. It is an apt description.

I've read Gladwell before and I'll read him again. I think that for someone who is "interested in everything", his books are fun. He is clearly one of us... not content to scratch the surface. He very much falls down research rabbit holes and takes you along for the ride. I dig it.

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