Comments for Blink

Comment from Tammy on 2007-04-25

2007-04-25T18:32:43Z

Read the Slate discussion between Gladwell & Surowiecki (who wrote Wisdom of Crowds). I was fortunate enough to read these books back to back and then discover this conversation. It added to my enjoyment of both books.

http://www.slate.com/id/2111894/entry/2112064/

Comment from James Taylor on 2007-04-26

2007-04-26T19:10:17Z

The challenge exposed by Blink, or one of them at least, is the volume of contextual information to which we are exposed and which we must exploit to make good judgements. As technologist, merely presenting this information is increasingly not enough, we must process it to form useful judgments or suggest useful actions. This means turning it into insights using analytics and even making decisions based on it before expecting users to "blink" it.

I reviewed Blink here - http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2006/07/book_review_bli.html
JT

Comment from jackvinson on 2007-04-26

2007-04-26T19:22:08Z

James, This was a great aspect of the book. Information overload is not only frustrating, it can actually keep us from making decisions.

Comment from jackvinson on 2007-04-28

2007-04-29T04:26:21Z

Tammy - Thanks for this link to the discussion between Gladwell and Surowiecki. I just had the opportunity to read it, and it adds another level of detail - or reminds me of an aspect of Blink that I really enjoyed.

"Thin Slicing" or "Rapid Cognition" is something that happens for everyone. But we don't all know how to interpret the resulting information. And there are far too many opportunities for another part of our brains to overwhelm the Rapid Cognition part.