David Geary's Weblog<p>I'll scratch a hole in my life<br/>So everyone can see<p>Tipping Rails- September 28, 2005 Like most people, you might assume that things typically progress in a linear fashion, but in his excellent book The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell describes how a wide range of things&8212;from Hush Puppies to best-selling books&8212reach a tipping point and go from obscure to widely adopted almost overnight. Hush Puppies, for example, once a fashion statement, were on the brink of extinction with meager sales of 30,000year worldwide in the early 1990s. Two years later, Hush Puppies sold 1.7...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/tipping_rails |