{"id":481,"date":"2008-05-10T14:53:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-10T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T19:53:40","slug":"blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"blink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blink_(book)\" title=\"Blink\">Blink<\/a> yesterday.  After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byrongronseth.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Byron\">Byron<\/a> 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 &#8211; to be true to <a href=\"http:\/\/gladwell.typepad.com\/gladwellcom\/\" title=\"Malcolm Gladwell\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>&#8216;s message I ought to just stop reading after the first 30 pages and make my judgement of the book.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; without reading more than 15% of the book here is my review of Blink (and done in the style of Blink):<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}