I'm a big fan of Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate is one of my all-time favourites. His New York Times review of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw is very interesting on the strengths and flaws of the Gladwell method. Pinker writes:

The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which
seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical
prowess in favor of luck, opportunity, experience and intuition. For an
apolitical writer like Gladwell, this has the advantage of appealing
both to the Horatio Alger right and to the egalitarian left.
Unfortunately he wildly overstates his empirical case.

However, Pinker concludes that this new book of essays is better than Outliers. And I quite enjoyed Outliers, so I dare say What the Dog Saw will be enjoyable too.