Japan does not have any one runner ticalyan marathons. But they have an enormous number of people who are in the top hundred. It's purely arbitrary that we choose to define greatest as just the country that most densely occupies the 90 ninth per centile. Why is that better than having a, a 300 at the top thousand? Right?
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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