This is a book that talks about how to make a decision, the process. And you choose as one of your central stories the way the Pentagon chose to go after Ben Nod. Why that story? First I did as a book about a particular kind of long-term decision. It's not about the passing choices that we make every day in our lives.
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.