Twitter is a great tool for creating an eclectic, like daily feed of interesting links and stimulus. I stumble across something through those, not so much in the tweets, but in the links and what people are pointing to. And it's a serendipity engine, right? It's constantly driving me towards new discoveries. Twitter has lost some of that in the sense that it's so dominated by the political conversation. We're living in a scary time politically and I understand that. But it still is a constant source of surprise and discovering that feeling of like, I didn't know that I was interested in this but I am.
We all face fork-in-the-road moments in our lives. In his 2005 bestseller “Blink,” Next Big Idea Club curator (and this episode’s guest interviewer) Malcolm Gladwell famously argued that snap judgments can be just as effective as meticulous planning. In this lively conversation, author Steven Johnson (“Farsighted”) disagrees, arguing that big, complex decisions require careful thought and scenario-building.