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.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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

You get steely nerves playing poker.