An interesting piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker about a pit bull ban in Canada ("a generalisation about a generalisation about a trait that is in fact not general"), from which it is possible to reach a number of conclusions about the inefficiencies that tend to occur whenever we asign traits to certain categories. In another article, Gladwell argues in favour of power law solutions to problems such as violent cops, chronic homelessness and vehicle pollution.The same issue has a fun little short story by Haruki Murakami about a woman that can't remember her own name.
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