I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.

Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.