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On the path to exceptional achievements
“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, has some interesting anecdotes illustrating his ideas about how to explain exceptionally successful people. These people would be outliers, they sit far outside the bell curve of normal achievement. Gladwell looks at various sets of outliers, such as professional hockey players, pc/software industry moguls, the robber barons of the industrial revolution,... »
New York in the Old Days
Time and Again, by Jack Finney. I guess this is a classic. Mild on science fiction, heavy on historical tourism. A great read for any New Yorker. Si Morley, our cool chill protagonist, found languishing in a NYC ad firm in the 70s, gets recruited into a top secret government project to travel back in... »
A good read on Poker
Positively Fifth Street by James McManus. James McManus recounts his trip to the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, where he was only supposed to cover the event (and a related kinky murder trial) for Harper’s Magazine. Instead, without telling his editor, he decides to also enter the contest, and makes it to the... »
