Gladwell, Yuval, and a lot of tech-adjacent writing (LW, @paulg, @david_perell, email newsletters) have popularized a style that values simple, provocative ideas—grounded in science/observation, but sometimes at the expense of rigor
h/t @a_fellow_ofhttps://www.newstatesman.com/2020/01/how-sell-good-ideas …
The controversial & unqualified nature of Gladwell’s writing style makes it really easy to criticize It’s also easy to criticize the critics, and so onhttps://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1216062605481185283 …
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Personally I fall into the “his writing is overly simplistic, but he’s an important figure who generates lots of good conversation” camp It’s easy to forget this when you’re on Twitter, but the *vast* majority of people are not interested in squabbling over arcane meta-politicspic.twitter.com/MeH7vESWih
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