The One Problem I Have as a Writer Is That I'm Old

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"The one problem that i have as a writer, you have a series of problems. One problem, a a serious problem, is that i'm old," he says. "A podcast forces me out of my age cohort and puts me back in the land of people in their twenties and thirties,. And that's, you know, i'm trying to kind of rejuvenate my thinking."

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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