Malcolm Gladwell Strikes Again

For those of you who enjoyed The Tipping Point and Blink, Malcolm Gladwell is back with Outliers, a book that means to dispel the myth that success depends on talent. Success, contends Gladwell, is a matter of circumstance, timing, and influence. Had several mothers not purchased a computer for Bill Gates' school, had his age group not been born at just the right time that computers were being developed, had the University of Washington not asked him and his classmates to play with computer programming after school, there would probably be no Microsoft. The grandson of a Jamaican slave, Gladwell writes a fascinating and compelling argument that is both an enlightening and entertaining read.