I decided to pick up this book, Outliers, when I was waiting for my flight to SFO this past weekend, and before I returned home, I had finished it! It was an interesting and easy read (largely due to its interestingness).
I most appreciated how the ideas in Outliers echo the theory of distributed cognition, but [...]
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About Brynn Evans
I'm Brynn Evans, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I've been studying how people use social web services for information sharing, discovery, and sensemaking.
