Episode 204: Malcolm Gladwell

Longform

Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new podcast is Revisionist History. “The amount of criticism you get is a constant function of the size of your audience. So if you think that, generously speaking, 80% of the people who read your work like it, that means if you sell ten books you have two enemies. And if you sell a million books you have 200,000 enemies. So be careful what you wish for. The volume of critics grows linearly with the size of your audience.” Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. @Gladwell Gladwell.com Gladwell on Longform [00:15] Malcolm Gladwell on the Longform Podcast [00:15] Revisionist History [08:30] "Episode 01: The Lady Vanishes" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016) [08:30] "Episode 03: The Big Man Can’t Shoot" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016) [08:30] "Episode 02: Saigon, 1965" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016) [10:30] "Hulk Hogan v. Gawker: A Guide to the Trial for the Perplexed" (The New York Times • Mar 2016) [19:30] "Episode 06: My Little Hundred Million" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016) [23:45] "Malcolm Gladwell just went nuts on a Wall Street billionaire’s $400 million donation to Harvard" (Business Insider • Jun 2015) [28:45] Gladwell on Audible [31:45] "Episode 05: Food Fight" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016) [32:30] "Episode 04: Carlos Doesn’t Remember" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016) [32:45] Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Longform Podcast [37:45] "Thresholds of Violence" (New Yorker • Oct 2015) [38:30] "Threshold Models of Collective Behavior" (American Journal of Sociology • May 1978) [43:30] The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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