Malcolm Gladwell: 'If my books appear oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them' ... "When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief," he says. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) is Malcolm Gladwell's second book. Now, if you shelled out cash to buy Gladwell's latest bestseller, Blink: The Power of … It looks at the Getty Museum in Southern California, which bought what turned out to be a highly controversial piece of work called a kouros (a type of Greek sculpture from antiquity). He’s new here, having spent the last decade at the Washington Post, covering business and science stories. Early one morning in 1996, Malcolm Gladwell sits at his desk at the New Yorker office. Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell's popular books include Blink, Outliers, and The Tipping Point. His work is often cited by people both inside and outside of the business world. Gladwell himself is discrediting his own work, essentially saying you also need a Psych 101 textbook at your side to make sure everything jives with actual fact. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell have both made significant contributions to the public’s understanding of social science research. Malcolm Gladwell “I wrote it because I had been covering the AIDS epidemic … [and] wanted to write a book that applied the logic of epidemics to other things. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, filled us in on how he gets--or doesn't- … Malcolm Gladwell on why his bestseller Blink was a load of hooey: Ross Douthat points me toward a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell called "TROUBLEMAKERS: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling" on why racial profiling shouldn't work. Gladwell’s books include The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers; Ariely’s titles include Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality.. Bottom line: you can't trust your first impressions! Author Malcolm Gladwell starts off Blink with one of his many anecdotes - and it is the anecdote that serves as one of his primary tools of argument (the other being scientific studies).