[ reading reflection and response ]

In Gladwell's signature style, this chapter was painfully choppy and could have been a lot more unified in its message, but he clearly has some good ideas. The Ya-Ya Sisterhood passage didn't really seem to relate to anything. It doesn't relate to the Rule of 150. It would work better in the previous chapter, considering it's more of an awkward continuation of that chapter that Gladwell makes as he gets his footing in this one. It does sort of fit in better as the chapter moves along, but the only connection seems to be that the Ya-Ya epidemic was tipped by groups. Moving on, Linworth is an obvious product of the Rule of 150. If we had significantly less students, it would be dull, but with more students it might end up feeling like a "regular" high school (plus, there's the fact that the school is probably only large enough to hold the current number of students).