James Surowiecki is a journalist and the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. He was the business columnist for The New Yorker for seventeen years, and has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Review of Books. He was a writer and co-producer of two documentaries on the history of college football for ESPN. He blogs at Medium.com, and teaches English at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his partner, Meghan O’Rourke, and two sons.