{"id":935,"date":"2010-01-11T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2023-10-12T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:37:48","slug":"what-the-dog-saw-is-thought-provoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/what-the-dog-saw-is-thought-provoking\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Dog Saw is thought provoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I read a collection of Tim Hartford\u2019s Financial Times articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/i-loved-dear-undercover-economist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dear Undercover Economist<\/em><\/a>, it was only logical to follow up with a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>\u2019s articles in the New Yorker, especially as I truly loved his last book <a href=\"http:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/outliers-is-fantastic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Outliers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a compilation of Gladwell\u2019s favorite articles. They are split into three parts:<\/p>\n<p>1. The life stories of obsessives and minor geniuses<br \/>\n2. Theories and ways of organizing experience<br \/>\n3. Thoughts on the predictions we make about people<\/p>\n<p>The first part was actually the worse \u2013 Gladwell\u2019s writing is excellent, but I just did not care about some of the stories. I loved some of the biographies as well so it made that section uneven.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third sections were truly thought provoking. He covers a wide range of topics including the Enron blowup, homelessness, the Challenger disaster, how we hire people, how society should best deal with pit bull attacks.<\/p>\n<p>What I loved is that most of his conclusions are counter intuitive yet logical and require thoughtful analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Read the book, it will open your mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I read a collection of Tim Hartford\u2019s Financial Times articles in Dear Undercover Economist, it was only logical to follow up with a collection of Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s articles in &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"What the Dog Saw is thought provoking. Categories - Books. Date-Posted - 2010-01-11T16:35:42 . After I read a collection of Tim Hartford\u2019s Financial Times articles in Dear Undercover Economist, it was only logical to follow up with a collection of Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s articles in the New Yorker, especially as I truly loved his last book Outliers.\n The book is a compilation of Gladwell\u2019s favorite articles. They are split into three parts:\n 1. The life stories of obsessives and minor geniuses\n 2. Theories and ways of organizing experience\n 3. Thoughts on the predictions we make about people\n The first part was actually the worse \u2013 Gladwell\u2019s writing is excellent, but I just did not care about some of the stories. I loved some of the biographies as well so it made that section uneven.\n The second and third sections were truly thought provoking. He covers a wide range of topics including the Enron blowup, homelessness, the Challenger disaster, how we hire people, how society should best deal with pit bull attacks.\n What I loved is that most of his conclusions are counter intuitive yet logical and require thoughtful analysis.\n Read the book, it will open your mind!\n ","Category":["Books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21663,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/21663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}