{"id":177,"date":"2005-03-15T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2005-03-15T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T21:14:31","slug":"author-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/author-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Author recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell has the happy knack of selecting the right stories and the right studies, and packaging them into memorable little morsels.  Highly recommended.  I suspect you could go a long way toward writing good non-fiction by studying what people like Gladwell and Steven Pinker do in their books.<\/p>\n<p>Some titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/tippingpoint\/index.html\">The Tipping Point<\/a>.  All about social epidemics.  Why some ideas spread, while others don&#8217;t.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/blink\/index.html\">Blink<\/a>.  Why and when making very rapid decisions can produce better results than extended cogitation.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/archive.html\">Shorter articles<\/a>. A good indication of what his longer work is like.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell has the happy knack of selecting the right stories and the right studies, and packaging them into memorable little morsels. Highly recommended. I suspect you could go a long way toward writing good non-fiction by studying what people like Gladwell and Steven Pinker do in their books. Some titles: The Tipping Point. All&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/author-recommendation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author recommendation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}