Life Is Random, Gladwell is Everywhere

Interesting article from John Schwartz in the NYT’s Week In Review: Thinking May Not Be All It’s Thought To Be An excerpt:

Steven P. Jobs introduced one last week: “Life is random.” It’s attached to the iPod Shuffle, Apple’s teeny new music player. The second comes from Malcolm Gladwell, a writer known for seeing revolutions in small things. The slogan is “Blink, don’t think,” and goes with his new book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” which argues that our instant decisions can be better than those born of long contemplation.