The transcript of Malcolm Gladwell's talk (http://www.davidgalenson.com/malcolmgladwell-lecture.pdf http://www.davidgalenson.com/malcolmgladwell-lecture.pdf) is

The transcript of Malcolm Gladwell's talk (http://www.davidgalenson.com/malcolmgladwell-lecture.pdf http://www.davidgalenson.com/malcolmgladwell-lecture.pdf) is a lot more interesting than the blog entry that's discussing it. It's not so much about age (i.e. you must be either 20 or 60 to make something great), but that there are two fundamentally different approaches to creation. The first is immediate and ex nihilo, the execution of a clearly defined idea that is fundamental to the artist's way of thinking. The second is slow and incremental, a blind walk through an enormous search space, until the artist finds something that resonates with them for reasons they can't properly explain. I could probably make some sort of startup vs. 37Signals analogy here, but my heart's not in it, so I'll leave it to someone else.