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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell
The audiobook is incredibly well-produced! I was incredibly interested at the start and found many insights fascinating. Toward the end of the book, however, it felt that Gladwell was falling prey to what he’d accused others of doing. While discussing matters of sexual abuse and police harassment, he indicated that others were not seeing the whole picture, because of “default to truth” and omitting how context played into the events. However, in doing so he still didn’t place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators, which didn’t sit right with me. Overall, that left a bad taste in my mouth, and I don’t think my mindset or behavior in everyday interactions will be any different than if I hadn’t read this.