I finally started reading Blink yesterday. After Byron recommended it to me way back in April of 2006 I tucked it away in the back of my mind to check out some day. As I was describing the content of the book to a watermelon fan in conversation recently it hit me that since the book is all about the validity of split second judgements – to be true to Malcolm Gladwell‘s message I ought to just stop reading after the first 30 pages and make my judgement of the book.
So – without reading more than 15% of the book here is my review of Blink (and done in the style of Blink):
Gladwell is an entertaining author. Many examples of why we should trust our instincts lead one to think that over-thinking may be more disastrous than not thinking.
I touched a red hot iron-there’s money here!
are you talking about short attention spans?
I suppose I should have included a comment about Twitter… the little one sentence blogging system that I’m sorry..I just don’t understand… It just sounds like a mass text message… so who cares?
“going to baseball game”
“eating at Amici Trattoria”
“wife giving birth”
c’mon… if something is that interesting it deserves more than a sentence… if it isn’t that interesting – then why am I subscribing to it?