I suppose Gladwell likes Moneyball because it's everything his books are not: a Big Idea that is actually corroborated by all the evidence. I remember reading

I suppose Gladwell likes Moneyball because it's everything his books are not: a Big Idea that is actually corroborated by all the evidence. I remember reading Blink and thinking, "hey, this anecdote just contradicted a point he made earlier". Gladwell is a great storyteller, but he wants so badly to find larger patterns at work that he overlooks the possibility that there aren't any.