Talking to Strangers
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Talking to Strangers
| Full title | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know |
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| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 386 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Gladwell on why we are bad at reading people we do not know — default to truth, transparency, coupling — built around cases where the misreading was fatal. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — November 2019 (Books photo album)
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A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @SpencrGreenberg asking “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (the thread, June 2025).
Source
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Malcolm Gladwell · Trust · Psychology · Language of Discourse — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.