Kyle Harrison
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Talking to Strangers
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 386
- Recommended
- Once
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 saw it: A reply to @SpencrGreenberg’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/spencrgreenberg/status/1930639380424577198
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.
Referenced in
- David Perell note