I find myself racing to rearrange my face when a friend recommends a Malcolm Gladwell book. Are there good alternatives or step ups from each of them?
The Tipping Point -> Complexity (M. Mitchell Waldrop).
Blink -> Sources of Power (Gary Klein).
Others?
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David and Goliath -> Man's Search For Meaning (Victor Frankl).
I am almost embarrassed to mention Gladwell and Frankl together. Frankl's not a step up, but several levels up. Though Frankl can be read as a spiritual experience, MSFM is also more practical than Gladwell.
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Tbf I finished blink but only 80% of klein
He wrote in a way that’s addictive to finish
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think Gladwell was super nice for teenage years though. Starting abstraction & expanding worldview. I think everything has levels. Tim Ferriss for example is also nice for starting out, & some of his interviewees are at the next level.
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I think what bothers me is that Gladwell gets a lot of his facts wrong. So it’s not even that his books are ‘lightweight’ or ‘simplified’ — it’s that they are actively mistaken.
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