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Malcolm Gladwell in his latest book on the genius of the everyday: Outliers.
At first, the premise of the book (a close look at how big shots built their success) is attractive marketing. You want to run and buy it and figure out how to turn a shitty life into a glittering one, because, hey, all you need to know is these few secrets, right?
But diving in, this excerpt is depressing. Outliers looks like an implicit diatribe on how the everyman just doesn’t have the goods to succeed.
Still, might merit a read! If not for the uplifting promise of progress, for the stories about Bill Gates sneaking into computer labs at 2 in the morning.
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