"When time becomes history, different dynamics come into focus than the ones
that are at any moment screaming for attention. The title of Gal Beckerman's
book intrigues and compels: The Quiet Before. He's a journalist with a special
interest in history and words and ideas how ideas are passed and debated and
become defining in generational time; how conversation becomes culture-shifting
relationship. He attends to dynamics we don't often take seriously enough: that
every idea and discovery that changes the world begins with seeds planted over
long stretches, and that this is always marked by passages that look like abject
failure.
Gal's conversation with Krista offers fantastically useful insights into how
our generation's media that can scale things more rapidly than ever before can
also inhibit the very ingredients that make for lasting transformation.
At the same time, this lens on our world refreshes with its perspective on the
way change happens, as opposed to mere disruption the reality that our lives
and actions below the radar hold the possibility of being more generative than
we can measure."
