If confirmed by the Senate, Gates is expected to bring some of the thinking of the study group to his new job.

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Being good at handling ambiguity is never the result of uncultivated talent, but rather extremely disciplined thinking, gained by years of focused study, careful apprenticeship, knowledge assimilation, and discarding hundreds of would-be good ideas.

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