Jason Gots

Jason Gots

Editor/Creative Producer, Big Think

Jason Gots is a New York-based writer, editor, and podcast producer. For Big Think, he writes (and sometimes illustrates) the blog "Overthinking Everything with Jason Gots" and is the creator and host of the "Think Again" podcast. In previous lives, Jason worked at Random House Children's Books, taught reading and writing to middle schoolers and community college students, co-founded a theatre company (Rorschach, in Washington, D.C.), and wrote roughly two dozen picture books for kids learning English in Seoul, South Korea. He is also the proud father of an incredibly talkative and crafty little kid. 

Douglas Rushkoff's new book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus is a refreshingly practical progressive how-to amid the rhetorical excesses of this election year. 
The apple of American politics never falls too far from the tree. 
Experimentation-out-of-love is often inefficient and hard to measure. It isn’t always “solution-oriented." But it’s as necessary and natural to us as breathing, and all too easily swept under the rug. 
Big Think's Jason Gots reviews David McCullough's 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams. 
Big Think's Jason Gots reviews Garth Risk Hallberg's novel City on Fire. 
Life won't let you go; not because brighter days are right around the corner, but because it just won't. 
Culturally and economically, modern Turkey is at a dangerous crossroads.