I don't really watch TV.

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That's more or less the empty set.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

If you have an unusual ability to spot, recruit, and direct those who work well with computers, even if you don’t work well with computers yourself, the contemporary world will make you rich.

Personal qualities of character such as self-motivation and conscientiousness will reap a lot of gains in the new world to come.

Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.

Today most of the debate on the cutting edge in macroeconomics would not call itself “Keynesian” or “monetarist” or any other label relating to a school of thought. The data are considered the ruling principle, and it is considered suspect to have too strong a loyalty to any particular model about the underlying structure of the economy.

A particular personality trait that doesn’t come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that mechanized intelligence can solve a rapidly expanding repertoire of problems.

This kind of machine-based learning is driven by a hunger for knowledge, not by a desire to show off your talent or to “signal” as we economists say.