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Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy. [13] When Malcolm was 11, his father, a professor of mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo , [ 14 ] allowed his son to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries. [ 15 ]
Wachtell is discussed in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. [13] He is married to Svetlana Stone Wachtell and has five children from previous marriages, as well as nine grandchildren. [14] His daughter Diane Wachtell is the executive director of The New Press, which she co-founded in 1992 with Andre Schiffrin.
The story of Ranadivé's team's unlikely success was told by author Malcolm Gladwell in the pages of The New Yorker, and later included in Gladwell's 2013 book, David and Goliath. [41] From 2016 to 2020, Ranadivé donated $55,731 to Democratic candidates and causes. [42]
PEOPLE is sharing an exclusive preview of Origin filmmaker DuVernay's appearance on Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell's new Audible interview series, The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and ...
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The bestselling author chatted with PEOPLE about his current favorite books, shows and authors at the Texas Book Festival
Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell was a journalist for The Washington Post before writing for The New Yorker.The subjects for his articles, usually non-fiction, range from "Dave Gaspayad's infomercial empire to computers that analyze pop songs". [2]
A particular form of unconscious bias Gladwell discusses is psychological priming. He also discusses the implicit-association test, [1] designed to measure the strength of a person's subconscious associations/bias. Gladwell also mentions that sometimes having too much information can interfere with the accuracy of a judgment, or a doctor's ...