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If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiriwww.patreon.com
The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds

Episodes

Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"

In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell posited that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in something. Mike and Peter prove him wrong by mastering his dumb book over the span of about 50 minutes. Support us on Patreon Links: Malcolm Gladwell talks about responding to critics, and the perils of ‘Talking to Strangers’ Gladwell for Dummies Malcolm Gladwell interview The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance The Dangers of Delegating Education To Jo...

Nov 10, 202250 min

Freakonomics

In 2005, two men named Steven and Stephen published the quintessential airport book. In 2022, two men named Mike and Peter started a whole podcast just to make fun of it. Thanks to Ted Joyce and Ames Grawert for helping with the research for this episode! Support us on Patreon Where to find us: Twitter Peter's other podcast, 5-4 Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase Sources: The 2003 NYT article Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? A Review of Freakonomics Dismal Science Freak-Freakonomics...

Nov 02, 20221 hr 13 min
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