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Charlie Rose interview of Malcom Gladwell regarding his new book Outliers.

Observations:

• I think Charlie wants to be Malcom.
• It’s all about effort and luck (or circumstances).
• We still don’t know very much about why someone becomes a success and why someone else doesn’t.
• It seems to me that in order to succeed one needs to really love (flow) the thing in which they hope to succeed in.

Internet Like Jazz

I was watching the Ken Burn’s documentary entitled Jazz the other night while trying to get my daughter to fall asleep and I was struck by how similar the Internet is to Jazz music. 

Wynton Marsalis is interviewed in the film and he lists out quite a few characteristics of Jazz music:

• improvised
• expressive
• collaborative
• entertaining
• creative
• unrestricted
• inventive
• experiential

Those characteristics sounds uniquely like the Internet (and no other medium).  The Internet is like Jazz music, and as bloggers, we are creating (and enjoying) the music of the Internet.