Nick’s Book Blog

I can't believe I'm reviewing this book, but since I got the recommendation to read it in a professional context, here it goes. I actually thought the book was hilarious. I mean, I sat in a parking lot and was laughing at it. I think it was funny because you've met people like this. I mean, at least they have some things in common with the people who are described in the book. I am fairly far from being a hipster: a) too old; b) too much body fat; c) way too Mormon; d) correct use of semicolons when punctuating a list. However, I did get two out of the six questions right on "how to tell you're a hipster." I won't write anymore because you can get a much better gist by just looking at the website . Very funny.

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I'm just going to bundle these two in the same post since they've kind of blurred together in my mind anyway, along with Linked , that I blogged about earlier. And I know I'm late to the party with the Gladwell books, so bear with me. And if you've not had a chance to read them yet, I'd say they're definitely a good real. They are both really good, and I think if you're the kind of person who likes to observe abstract phenomena in society, you'll really dig both of them. Now, I've reduced the thesis of Blink down to a single phrase that Gladwell uses: "thin slicing." Thin slicing means that you can do a lot with a little, so to speak, informationwise. In other words, we have so much information thrown at us on a daily, hourly, minutely basis that less is more. Thru the use of loads of examples, Gladwell explains why we can size up a situation with precision accuracy when we're given just enough information; the inverse of this is that t...