Revenge of the Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
Twenty-five years on, Gladwell revisits epidemics with new cases: overstories, superspreaders, the magic third, Harvard's athlete admissions, the opioid crisis. More willing than before to look at the dark uses of tipping points.
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Three things you will actually use
- Overstories shape behaviour invisibly.
- Small groups of superspreaders drive epidemics.
- Proportions tip at around a third.
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Read the chapters on the opioid epidemic.
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The darker sequel.
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