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Linked List: November 15, 2008

Saturday, 15 November 2008

‘Outliers’ 

Amazon pre-order link for Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers — looks like it’s set to ship in three days.

Sitzfleisch 

Tying together yesterday’s link to Brent Simmons’s advice for would-be indie developers (“You need to wear out that chair and then buy a new one and then wear out that one”) and the previous link to Malcolm Gladwell’s conclusion that it is perseverance and above all else extraordinary amounts of practice that separates the great from the not-great, is the wonderful German word sitzfleisch:

The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.

(Thanks to DF reader Mark Eli Kalderon.)

10,000 Hours 

Fascinating excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s soon-to-be-released Outliers: The Story of Success:

This idea — that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice — surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.

(Thanks to Tom Davis.)