Author: Nate Silver

Truth

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Nate Silver

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Power

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

Nate Silver

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

Politics

I 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 Silver

I 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.

Learning

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

Nate Silver

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

Learning

We're not that much smarter than we used to be even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

We're not that much smarter than we used to be even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.