@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 19:31:57
Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since.
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character.
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…
