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Feb 2025
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Malcolm Gladwell, Social Engineering and...

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About this episode

If you haven’t changed your mind on anything in the past two decades, you should reconsider your beliefs.


Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book is Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering and he is the host of the podcast Revisionist History. Dylan Lewis caught up with Gladwell for a conversation about:


- How social engineering effects your life.

- Why real diversity can prevent leaders from doing stupid things.

- The demand to return to more in-person experiences.


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guest: Malcolm Gladwell

Producer:Ricky Mulvey

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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