Economy Is Not Baseball, Where The Game

Data Scientist Is Just A Sexed Up Word For Statistician.

To The Extent That You Can Find Ways Where You're Making Predictions, There's No Substitute For Testing Yourself On Real-world Situations That You Don't Know The Answer To In Advance.

New Ideas Are Sometimes Found In The Most Granular Details Of A Problem Where Few Others Bother To Look.

There's Always The Risk That There Are Unknown Unknowns.

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.