The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom, and the screenwriter of The Social Network and Steve Jobs, has a knack - or at least a propensity - for telling stories
about fast -
talking intellectuals whose brains are overflowing with observations and anecdotes, most of which are
thematically important by the end of the conversation... a conversation that had at least a 40 % chance of being given while the
characters walked somewhere.