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He Was Ignorant, But A Lot Of People Mistook Ignorance For Stupidity, And Knowingness For Intelligence.

The Big Wall Street Firms, Seemingly So Shrewd And Self-interested, Had Somehow Become The Dumb Money. The People Who Ran Them Did Not Understand Their Own Businesses, And Their Regulators Obviously Knew Even Less.

Just Because You've Been Successful And Just Because You've Disrupted An Environment, Doesn't Mean You're A Role Model Or That You Actually Have Anything To Teach Anybody. There's An Awful Lot Of Luck And Accident In The World, And Maybe You Were Just On The Receiving End Of That.

That's What Happens When You're Thirty-seven Years Old: You Do The Things You Always Did But The Result Is Somehow Different.

It Is The Nature Of Being The General Manager Of A Baseball Team That You Have To Remain On Familiar Terms With People You Are Continually Trying To Screw.