David and Goliath (2013), The Tipping Point (2000) | Malcolm Gladwell

David and Goliath is about how the seemingly disadvantaged, small people or underdogs, triumph over big enemies. 

A couple items:
  • Sometimes the disadvantages are not what they seem, they are what makes the game different and strategic. And inversely, sometimes what seems like an advantage can become a stumbling block.
  • Sometimes, the things that are out of our control, that which makes us different are the ones that push us to grow through it. Like dyslexia, a torn family and/or race issues.
  • The last is that power is not what it seems. Power can be miscalculated. 

One that stood out and was excruciatingly painful to read, was the story of the doctor who treated leukemia.

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Tipping Point. I've forgotten a lot about Tipping Point since I've read it last year. I only thought of including it since I read a Malcolm Gladwell book again.

From what I remember it's a collection of stories of how an idea explodes. At a time when the term viral wasn't used to connote popular cat videos yet, It's about how ideas make a big difference in a short amount of time.

Here he describes three rules for an idea, or a movement to tip:
  1. Law of the Few - a set of people have to be involved. Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen. These are like, in the following order: The Specialists, The Networkers, and the Persuaders.
  2. Stickiness - is about the quality of how memorable the content is.
  3. Context - is about the environment and how people are influenced by it.


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