tipping-pointThis weekend I finished Malcolm Galdwell’s The Tipping Point. Cyril Connolly once famously remarked that imprisoned in every fat man is a thin man wildly signalling to be let out. Well, I would argue that inside every one of these ‘must-reads’ there is a decent article struggling to get out.  Indeed, like Black Swan, The Tipping Point began life as an article.  A second iron law applicable to this sort of book is that their basic thesis is invariably summed up in the sub-title. Gladwell’s is ‘How little things can make a big difference.’ Taleb’s is ‘The impact of the highly improbable.’ I did learn quite a lot from both books, though, that is of immediate relevance to my professional duties, and some stuff that isn’t…