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The Tipping Point (M. Gladwell)

2005-07-12 3 min read Books Marco
I had heard about this book, “The Tipping Point”, for a while and decided to give it a read. At first, I thought it was going to be something like “Built to Last” or “First, Break All the Rules”: a book with a single message that could have been written as two sentences, but is fluffed up with examples and discussions. Not the case here. A tipping point, according to the author, is a sudden change in the state of a mass of humans according to which something that was not popular just before the tipping point is popular after. Continue reading

Back from Hawai'i

2005-07-12 1 min read Happened to Me... Marco
After a horrific nine hour non-stop flight (four of them spent on the ground waiting for a “battery charger”), I finally made it back in one piece from Hawai’i. A week of travel is about all I can handle right now, especially since the house didn’t close yet and I have a trillion things to do. Takeaways from this trip? Not sure. I knew the island pretty well before I visited, so a lot of the sights were repeats. Continue reading
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