"My desire to tell stories is not a product of my background. It's a reaction against background," he says. "I was so either uninterested tisn't the notion that you would sit around a dinner table and tell and recount hilarious stories from the day" He adds: "You just left out the negative ones."
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