Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) has just come out with a new book, Outliers: The Story of Success (which I have just ordered - it was only released two days ago!). The thesis of the book, in the excerpt I read (in the NY Times, I think), is that radical success [...]
Read full post hereI attended the naturalization ceremony of a close friend on Wednesday - a big event, as he’d been waiting 17 years(!) to get his American citizenship. He says he came to the U.S. because it is a far better place for an “out” gay man than his home country, and that got me thinking about [...]
Read full post herePeg wrote an interesting post on specialization in her blog yesterday, that got me to thinking. (I should preface this by saying that my post has very little to do with her post, which is all about specialization and artistry, except the title.)
I’m a generalist, and always have been. It was an major source of [...]