The podcast episode here: In this final episode on Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers, I circle back to the first episode where we discussed his podcast Revisionist History. Once I got home and started reading the paper version of the book ‘Talking to Strangers – What we should know about the...

He had me at ‘spy stories’. The podcast episode here: When Heather Reisman asked Malcolm Gladwell what compelled him to write the book 'Talking to Strangers – What we should know about the people we don’t know', he said he loves a good spy story. So he started asking himself the question...

Who can forget that little boy? Dressed up as all little 5 year-olds like to be. In full regalia: long black robe, lightsaber in hand, iconic helmet firmly on, he is Darth Vader. He has the outfit, he has the strut. But, boy, he's having trouble with the Force! Nothing seems to bow to his command: The...