Nov 24, 2008 6:40pm
How Did Bill Gates Rise To The Top?
EmailThe best-selling author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink" is back with a new book. In his latest offering — titled "Outliers" — Malcolm Gladwell takes a look at how people rise to the top of their professions. Gladwell’s theory: it’s not always the brightest, but those who seize the opportunities available to them.
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How did Bill Gates rise to the top peddling electronic garbage? Give me a break.
Posted by: Jackie | November 24, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
Just like the printing press caused the price of moving information around to plummet by several orders of magnitude, what, half a millennium ago. . . (essentially giving birth to modern science by the way) . . . computers and the internet is doing the same thing only a million times better . . (making information practically free, and who knows what will come of that.) Big Bill just kept selling us access to our own information today at yesterday’s access prices – for a couple of decades – and the rest is arithmetic.
Anybody remember arithmetic?
Posted by: Gwight | November 25, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am
“Gladwell’s theory: it’s not always the brightest, but those who seize the opportunities available to them.”
Social connections and parents who can afford to send you to Harvard allow you to start at the top of the ladder rather than spend a lifetime climbing it. There are more opportunities waiting to be seized up there, and a really soft, cushy safety net not far below.
Posted by: Yukon Sam | November 25, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am