[alan_wade]

God what a well written article! I don't have much to say on the subject, but this was pure joy to read, it's crazy good. Clear, engaging, to the point, making a difficult subject accessible without dumbing it down, no fluff or unnecessary side stories, just awesomeness.

[melling]

Welcome to The New Yorker.

Malcolm Gladwell, as well as many other great writers, can be found here:

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/malcolm-gladwell

This weeks story on Donald Trump might be of interest:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burne...

[assblaster]

The only gripe I had with the writing was the completely unnecessary injection of gender pronoun controversy.

I highly recommend the AlphaGo movie as well, it does a great job documenting the psychology of professional Go in the world of AI.

[cdelsolar]

what gender pronoun controversy? did we read the same article?

[assblaster]

>An expert human player is an expert precisely because her mind automatically identifies the essential parts of the tree and focusses its attention there.

Instead of using gender neutral pronoun like "they", the author used a feminine pronoun.

[skybrian]

This is nitpicking. I like using singular "they" and I'm guessing it will win, but this isn't settled yet and some editors make different choices.

[skyyler]

I don't like singular "they", we should try to establish a second person plural pronoun.

[erikpukinskis]

It actually feels to me that you are injecting gender controversy here.

The New Yorker style guide allows the author to use he or she at their discretion. That’s been the norm for hundreds of years.

[WillPostForFood]

It is especially jarring when there is only one woman in the current top 100 chess players, Yifan Hou ranked 86.

[erikpukinskis]

Are there no expert players outside of the top 100?

[Para2016]

I'm not sure that out of those thousands of words that's the idea that deserves notice and discussion.