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Jason Gots
Associate Editor, Big Think
Recent Activity
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What’s the Big Idea? Facebook shares start trading today, at a price that will value the company at close to $100 billion, or roughly the 2011 GDP of Sudan. The difference between this and other comparably enormous initial public offerings is that Facebook's product, or service, is free. Its ... Read More
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What’s the Big Idea? The average consumer associates 3M with tape – a product so integral to our daily lives that we barely notice it anymore. But in 1925, as an alternative to the unwieldy, glue-covered sheets of paper it made obsolete, the product was a stroke of genius. In fact, 3M is ... Read More
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The Mind/Body Split in American Acting (and culture) On the whole, and with a few notable exceptions, Hollywood expects its great actors to play themselves in every role. We want primal authenticity, and view physicalization of character with suspicion. Actors who excel at altering the way they ... Read More
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Jason Silva is an optimist. With a capital O. His optimism hits you full force the moment you meet him – the broad, beaming grin, the reassuring handshake . . . no, before that, in the form of multiple enthusiastic exclamation points in his every email. More specifically, he’s optimistic about the ... Read More
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I think the internet is a connection machine. It connects us with information and transactions and actions, but especially it connects us with each other... If you don’t start from an assumption of faith in your fellow man and woman, then I don’t think you believe in the value of ... Read More
About Jason Gots
Jason is a New York based writer and editor. He has taught reading and writing to middle schoolers and community college students, co-founded a theatre company (Rorschach, in Washington, D.C.), and written almost two dozen picture books for kids learning English in Seoul, Korea. Before joining Big Think, he worked in the editorial department at Random House Children's Books. Jason is a literature junkie, experimental cook and homebrewer, and sometime singer-songwriter. He is also father to a bright, friendly kid named Emre. Visit Jason's homepage Cute and Menacing.