For 10 points, name the author of The Tipping Point, a long-time columnist for the New Yorker who recently released a collection of essays called What the Dog Saw.
One of this man's works describes how prejudices can influence our ability to make judgements in a short period of time, an ability he terms "thin-slicing".  One of this man's works claims that success in a field is basically dependent on spending ten thousand hours practicing any one thing; that work discusses Bill Gates and J. Robert Oppenheimer and others with high intelligence and is called (*) Outliers. He also used the metaphor of salesmen, mavens, and connectors to describe "The Power of the Few" in a book which discusses the tendency of events to change very rapidly after reaching a critical point. For 10 points, name the author of The Tipping Point, a long-time columnist for the New Yorker who recently released a collection of essays called What the Dog Saw.
One of this man's works describes how prejudices can influence our ability to make judgements in a short period of time, an ability he terms "thin-slicing".  
{Malcolm Gladwell}