If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

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.