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This is where they practically lived for two weeks.

They have become life-long friends who shared the journey of loss with me.

They became part of the story also.

trusting me and allowing me to read what you had written before you sent your pieces of writing to your editor.

readers are moved to think and talk about important questions, situations, and events.

the evidence may be circumstantial but he doesn’t just make it up.

What if in telling one of these stories, the author inadvertently made life much harder for a large group of people who are disadvantaged in some way?

an extraordinarily high percentage of entrepreneurs are dyslexic

It’s that having dyslexia, and dealing with its consequences, played a causal role in their success.

Gladwell seems oblivious to how deeply hurtful the “desirable difficulty” suggestion might be to people who have to deal with being dyslexic, and to the parents who struggle, against institutional resistance, to get their dyslexic children help.

So here’s an irony: what if Gladwell’s chapter makes it harder for a dyslexic to achieve the levels of success he venerates?

it has no bearing on what to do about a dyslexic child.

he’s created a meme whose existence doesn’t depend on being true.

, it’s rational to be concerned that Gladwell’s message of desirable difficulty will have undesirable consequences for the mass of individuals who are dyslexic.

Gladwell knows this; he just wants it also known that the condition apparently had remarkably positive effects for some people, and why.

Now parents may be faced with yet another response: dyslexia isn’t a developmental disability, it’s desirable.

not letting facts get in the way of a good story

Each chapter (or New Yorker article) explores an interesting, usually counterintuitive, idea by means of an engaging narrative, woven out of several types of cloth: personal biographies, telling anecdotes, research studies, expert opinions.

The average reader is not aware of what has been left out and thus can be easily mislead.

This is particularly bothersome to scientists whose own first commandment is something like: thou shalt address all relevant evidence, not merely the findings that support the most interesting, attention-getting hypothesis.

At some point, they or their company will screw up.

corporate executives must have a well thought out communications plan

Apologizing immediately shows that you acknowledge that something wrong has occurred. It does not equate to admitting any wrongdoing.

It’s important to be the first out of the gate to acknowledge the situation and its impact on the victims.

Respond where it happened.

If a company’s audience is active on Twitter, it should first communicate there and extend that communication to other platforms.

Committing to an investigation shows that the company is taking the issues seriously and equally important, it gives the company time to find out the relevant details of the problem while providing the public time to grieve knowing that there is some assurance that action will be taken.

Mistakes happen.