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2018 in Books #1 : Outliers

My membership at the Evanston Public Library is my best-worst decision. Best, because I now have e-books delivered right into my Kindle without having me trudge in snow to borrow or return a book and the worst, because it is going to make me lazy and unfit.  Cut to the chase, Outliers has been a good start to 2018. At a modest 300 odd pages, Malcolm Gladwell writes a deeply researched and critically analysed account of success stories that we know of.  | The biggest takeaway you can get from Outliers  is the "other side" of stories, which are often ignored for the sake of glorification of the achievement. | It was enjoyable to see how tiny, seemingly inconsequential factors can help a person go a long way. A popular example the book talks about is Bill Gates' rise as a billionaire when he was a college dropout.  Treating his story superficially has led to popularizing the opinion, "hey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were college drop outs
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Make Everyday Fool's Day

"Don't believe anything that's posted on April Fool's day! :P"

"It's definitely fake, today is April 1!"

We see tonnes of shit posts on April 1st filling up our news feed, messages being circulated carrying fake, unbelievable news like the RBI introducing a new 1000 rupee note, celebrities getting married, Ola rolling out segways, freebies on data plans and these are just the ones I have seen. We laugh it off and arm ourselves with the skepticism as we open every message as it would be very very embarrassing if we were called an "April fool".

Little do we realize, fake news is being circulated all the time. Things going unverified all over the internet; I cannot help but wonder if there could be an organisation behind creating and sharing such fabricated data in order to polarize society and create chaos (courtesy Homeland S06). In any case, facts are failing, evidence is being continuously undermined and we wish to pick what we choose to believe in this age of post-truth. We choose our beliefs over reality

We are at our incredulous best on the first of April while fake news makes a fool out of us every single day. The irony.
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