You get steely nerves playing poker.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.