By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.