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Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine. http://www.newyorker.com/
by iqster 15y ago
Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
- jamesbritt 15y agoIndeed. He is the king of anecdata such that "Gladwelling" has become a word (roughly meaning to construct a pretense of argument from a series of anecdotes). Plus there's this (ab)use of his name: http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/gladwelled.html http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/gladwelled.html
- kenjackson 15y agoIf you read the article it's hard not to believe that IV is an innovation machine. Hatred of SW patents aside their talent and ideas are pretty cool.
- william42 15y agoWhich just makes it even more tragic that such bright people are working for the king of patent trolls.
- noonespecial 15y agoIts damn near meta-tragic. Bright people thinking up things that they are going to actively prevent from being invented.