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Once you pick a story topic, what's your reporting process like? It differs. I'm interested in placing things in a larger context and in making lateral connections. A lot of my process is informed by the notion that two mildly good stories put together sometimes equal one really...
Have you ever raised an idea in one of your pieces and then later - say, when a new nugget of information emerges - realized it was off the mark? Yeah. Or, more often, additional evidence starts to pile up and you realize you just positioned the article the wrong way. In...
In your last book, Outliers, you talked about how success comes not just through genetics or hard work but through context - the situations we stumble into fortuitously. Can you talk a little bit about your own lucky breaks? I've had millions. I was in one of the last generations...
I'm curious about your take on the statistics revolution in baseball and, increasingly, basketball. You've cautioned against assessing players through measurements like height or arm strength. Some of the ideas in Blink would also seem to support old scouting models, in which you just take the guy who...
What do you suppose your life would have been like if you had stayed there originally? There was a Mennonite guy whom everybody sort of expected me to marry. Hi, Gary! He was tall, I was tall. Our parents were friends. We both were interested in theology, maybe even in...