went to a DC Pete event on foreign policy this week

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1. I keep repeating myself when I talk about Pete - "Pete plays 4-dimensional chess"

The regular two-dimensions, plus depth, plus time. He runs models in his mind - all possible combinations of events including if the event happens "now" or "tomorrow" or in several decades - then he boils his knowledge down to something that can be communicated in words to the rest of us.

If he surrounds himself with brilliant people we have a chance of slowing the ever-accelerating pace of self-destruction.