Episode · This Week in Startups · 2022-12-25
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Jason Calacanis discussed Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Blink
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a popular psychology book that examines the power of the adaptive unconscious and how people make snap judgments based on thin slicing.
Discussed“she then sandbags it because they you may not know this but uh this was in one of Malcolm gladwell's books blink I believe when they do these auditions they do them behind a curtain”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she's actually either in a dream or in a supernatural and they're I don't buy that like they're also those people who who have you read the really really upsetting theory that like all of the Harry Potter story are actually this poor kid in a mental institution is horrible”