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“We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.”

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The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny.

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The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding.

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In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.

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Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.

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I make judgments about people and ideas individually - for me, parties are just a vehicle of convenience.

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Usually in politics everything is done on hunches.

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Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage.

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