I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate SilverI was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate SilverShakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.
Nate SilverThe thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
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