Open Secrets: Malcolm Gladwell's Analysis of Information, Mysteries, and the Enron Case

A blog post reviewing Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article on open source intelligence, which distinguishes between puzzles (problems lacking information) and mysteries (problems with too much information). Gladwell argues that Enron was a mystery rather than a puzzle—the warning signs were publicly available but drowned in excessive data. The review discusses how intelligence analysts and Cornell business students successfully identified risks through careful analysis of public information.