The Tipping Point [Book]

Dated Mar 1, 2000; last modified on Mon, 05 Sep 2022

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Malcom Gladwell. Mar 1, 2000. ISBN: 0-316-31696-2 .

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Jul 8, 2016	»	0. Introduction 2 min; updated Sep 5, 2022 Introduction The Tipping Point is the biography of how little things had big effects. From 1992 to 1997, murder rates dropped 64.3% to 770 and total crimes fell by \(\approx\) 50% to 355,893. Geometric progressions are non-intuitive, e.g. if given a large paper and asked to fold it 50x, the stack’s height will be \(\approx\) the distance to the sun. This is a popular illustration. The standard paper’s thickness, \(h_0\), is \(0.1\) milllimeters, and the distance to the sun, \(d_{sun}\), is \(149.6\) million kilometers. Solving for \(n\) in \( h_{0} \cdot 2^n = d_{sun} \) gives \(n = 50.41 \). ...
Jul 8, 2016	»	1. The 3 Rules of Epidemics 2 min; updated Sep 5, 2022 The Law of the Few From 1995 to 1996, the # of children born in Baltimore with syphillis increased 500%. CDC blamed it on cocaine and reduction in clinics. In 100k+ Colorado Springs town, the gonorrhoea epidemic tipped because of the activities of 168 people living in 4 small neighbourhoods, frequenting the same 6 bars. Gaëtan Dugas, an Air-Canada flight attendant, is [mis?]regarded as “Patient Zero” for AIDS in the US. It’s claimed he had \(\approx\) 2,500 sexual partners over North America, and linked to 40 of the earliest cases of AIDS in CA and NY. ...
Jul 8, 2016	»	2. The Law of the Few (3 items) 1. Connectors; 2. Mavens; 3. Salesmen;

Introduction