On: How to write like Malcolm Gladwell

[tom-thistime]

He enchanted us and then let us down. No way are we going to admit that he's enchanting now.

[gumby → tom-thistime]

Oh come on: his craft is in generating the extended version of a TED talk. You feel good about yourself after reading them.

There's legitimate value in that.

[tom-thistime → gumby]

Are we disagreeing?

[gumby → tom-thistime]

You said "he let us down", presumably because some of his research was found to have been wrong and/or shallow.

If you use the same perspective of a ted talk, false, bogus, or shallow work is the coin of the realm. He did not let you down.

[fknorangesite → tom-thistime]

Oh I will happily admit that he is still enchanting. I just don't take him seriously.

[gumby → fknorangesite]

who would? It's like eating breakfast cereal: the point is not nutrition.