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Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell puts together stories that explain several social issues, from COVID to rashes of bank robberies in seemingly unrelated narratives. This is a follow-up book to the author’s best-selling 2000 The Tipping Point.
- 368 pages
- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0316575801
My rating for Revenge of the Tipping Point – 4
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Thoughts:
This was a fascinating book; I enjoyed Mr. Gladwell’s story-telling and weaving of different narratives to make a coherent point. I actually thought that it was somewhat complementary to Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus, which also talks about the power of stories we tell ourselves.
One of the reasons Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is so enjoyable is because it speaks to a large audience, getting people who know nothing about a subject to find it fascinating. As a result, however, the stories that are brought forth are rebranded, or retold, of known ideas.
The book deserves a much closer look and a dose of critical thinking. Often time there’s a literary sleight of hand to hedge the narrative, which sounds authoritative otherwise. That doesn’t take away from the point though, even though I found some of the cases more convincing than others.
I am a firm believer in what the book is attempting to show, how little things can make a huge difference, purposefully or not. I do think though that Mr. Gladwell’s examples are somewhat outdated as the world has moved at a tremendous pace.
While the book offers no solutions, it is thought-provoking but is too vanilla. It’s as if the author tried to avoid complexity and the hard, and often ugly, truths despite his independent status.
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