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Princeton University's 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks

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The "Moneyball" story has practical implications. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

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2012 Baccalaureate Remarks

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This was absurd. Even I could see there was another, truer narrative, with luck as its theme.

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The Price of a Free Society

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Unlike conservatives, we believe that the people can enlarge their freedom through the only power that they share in common, which is their government. Taxes are the price we pay for that expanded vision of freedom.

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Evernote Organization without Organizing

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Evernote Organization without Organizing

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