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. 

We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.
Words like “comforting” and “reassuring” don’t seem sufficiently “sexy” praise for a literary work on this scale, but these are the only words to describe its effect (on this reader, at least).
Before he “jumped ship to the useless, unemployable arts", young Salman wanted to be a physicist. This and more on Big Think's weekly podcast, Think Again. 
Urbanization is increasing rapidly, worldwide. It's good for innovation, but is it good for people? 
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. So does the sleep of imagination. 
Will nanobots someday deposit Shakespeare directly into our brains? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we're joined Buddhist-influenced psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein
We surprise the world's brightest minds with ideas they're totally unprepared to discuss. This week on Big Think's podcast, we're joined by the legendary musician and spoken-word artist Henry Rollins.