In Triplicate | Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell

A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.
Interviewed in this episode: Michael Specter, David Courtwright, Sid Wolfe, Abby Alpert, Linda Wastila, Yongbo Sim.
Season 7 (2022)
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ABOUT REVISIONIST HISTORY
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past - an event, a person, an idea, even a song - and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Cautionary Tales, Deep Cover, The Last Archive, and Lost Hills), in addition to producing the hugely successful Revisionist History. Pushkin’s growing audiobook catalogue includes includes the bestselling biography “Fauci,” by Michael Specter, “Hasta La Vista, America,” Kurt Andersen’s parody Trump farewell speech performed by Alec Baldwin, "Takeover" by Noah Feldman, and “Talking to Strangers,” from Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners and inspires curiosity and joy.
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[@malcolmgladwell]

Drug warriors. Bureaucratic snafus. And a massive mea culpa from yours truly.

[@csrouse33]

I was surprised by your position in 1991. Many people were thinking that way at the time myself included. Why?

[@sherenbillable]

If only enough people listened to podcasts like this, the world will be so much more informed and hopefully better!

[@myfamiliar795]

I’ve watched two of the rhs so far and am loving them. As good as his books 📚 😊

[@rondihoover5605]

So where does the triplicate program currently stand?

[@amme30]

Wow didn't it turn out to be stunning. What great work, so meticulous

[@robertgrillo1141]

What I don't understand is, if 33 data entry clerks were hired why were there bulging files full of prescriptions-weren't they now on a drive somewhere??

[@sabinagal9953]

The paper copies are much more difficult to fake or ignore, in the same way tax auditors want original receipts.

[@Luca-tw9fk]

salvation! just when the rest of my podcasts were becoming dry and repetitive

[@oldsoul3539]

I think the most important moral of the story is make sure you don't come across as overbearing and hysterical. The same thing happened with Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis who figured out that washing your hands after handling dead bodies stopped subsequent patients getting sick and dying. Just like the old saying, 'those who do not hear the music believe the dancer mad'; those who don't understand your reasons just see you impersonating an animated gif of kermit the frog's arm flail.

[@LyndseyMacPherson]

The triplicate programme, by the data, clearly worked.
But other federal big brothers seem to have left to go play ball with those from which the American public needs protection.

[@rutakassa5631]

Is this the full video?

[@L33PL4Y]

Yep

[@robertpembroke8902]

Lilliputian Projection of Negative and Positive Space in the ABCD vis a vis .a baby city' Joke
Did you know that if you get a drill bit door hole attachment for a drill and make holes in a fence paling that you have created a negative to positive space representation in modelling of a Diorama. n.b., watch out you don't lose your fingers if you ever do it with the hole driller, they're wild;) The 'w' upside down 'M' shape becomes the ocean waves and the positive space in the round wooden holes can become tables and a round performance stage per the little people as Conan Doyle once called them.
I'm using it to make little bits of furniture decoration for my Paddle Steamer model. I'll put up an image later once it all dries. It will be ocean waves as a boat stand and the round holes will be a round stage and tables for the top deck. I might even make an ensemble of instruments for the stage:)