What are you unwilling to optimise?
Recorded Barack Obama said elsewhere, not written here
There are some things about being president that I still have difficulty doing. … For example, faking emotion. Because I feel it is an insult to the people I'm dealing with. For me to feign outrage, for example, feels to me like I'm not taking the American people seriously. I'm absolutely positive that I'm serving the American people better if I'm maintaining my authenticity. And that's an overused word. And these days people practice being authentic. But I'm at my best when I believe what I am saying.

Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, October 2012 issue, 11 September 2012 source ↗

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