"Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too.", an interview with Gladwell by Emma Goldberg, brilliantly puts its key point in the title. Other excellent comments along the way:

• “… the goal of the book [is] to give people the sense that the world that you’re given is not the world you have to settle for …”
• “… Now that I am a parent, I don’t think I’ll ever opine on parenting again …”
• “… In these kinds of books, you can’t ever tell the whole story. You have to pick where you think the opportunities for advancing people’s understanding are the greatest …”
• “… you do need to communicate the uncertainty. It’s fine to have a beautiful idea that you’re presenting to people and helping them make sense of the way the world operates. But I do think that you have to communicate the understanding that this could be wrong. …”

_{(see New York Times gift-link to the interview, and here cf Science vs Stamp Collecting (2000-06-20), Retrospective History (2003-03-07), ...) - ^z - 2024-09-26}