Malcolm Gladwell interview

The A.V. Club recently posted a great interview with author Malcolm Gladwell. In it, Gladwell, who wrote The Tipping Point, Blink, and his newest, Outliers, discusses his works, his interest in the reasons behind our society's desire for extraordinary moments and explanations, Barack Obama, and how we as a group choose those who achieve:

AVC: Information is a common theme in what you do: how information is generated, and how it should be used. Do you have a philosophy of information that you want to get across?

MG: I think I would encourage people to be playful about theories and facts. I want them to be willing to look at things a number of different ways and turn it over in their mind a bit and play with it before they settle on a conclusion. Not to trivialize my books, but they're intended to be playful books in that sense, right? They take something that you thought was X, and now let's think about it in terms of Y and Z. And maybe you get back to X, but it's really useful to have those two extra perspectives.

The full article can be found here at the A.V. Club website.