#0017 Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is an author, journalist and cultural commentator who was born on the 3rd of September 1963. He grew up and went to school in rural Ontario, reportedly receiving disappointing grades during his schooling. Gladwell decided to pursue advertising as a profession, however, after being rejected by every advertising agency under the sun, he accepted a journalism position at The American Spectator magazine. Between the years 1987 and 1996, he would work as a reporter for the Washington Post, covering business and science. Gladwell interned with the National Journalism Centre in Washington in 1982. He would also graduate with a bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College of the University of Toronto, in 1984. Due to this high performance in his field, Gladwell would eventually become the paper’s bureau chief in New York City. Since working for and leaving the Washington Post in 1996, Gladwell has been a staff writer for the New Yorker. He is also the host of the Revisionist History podcast, and co-founded Pushkin Industries.