One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.