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Assignment: Gladwell, Ch 2

Assignment: Gladwell, Ch 2

Q Who is Bil Joy? Why was computer programming considered an “open playing field” (37, ebook: Part 1-2)? According to Gladwell, what separates the best musicians from the other musicians at music schools (39, ebook: Part 2)? Why, according to Gladwell, is it hard to get really, really good at something if you are poor (42, ebook: Part 2-3)? What did Joy enjoy at The University of Michigan (42-47, ebook: Part 3)? When the Beatles were still a local/high school band where did they travel to play? How often? How long were their gigs (gig is a short job)? What did Gates get to do as a child and young adult that most youth his age couldn’t? Why? How? What do the people listed on 62 have in common? (ebook/PDF: part 2, not the table, of wealth in billions 1-75, but the 1, 2, 28, etc. list after that starting with Rockefeller and ending with Armour).

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Bill Joy was a student at the University of Michigan. He later became the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.