Skin in the Game
The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping tapestry for understanding our world in a brand
ISBN: 9780141982656
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Naval Ravikant
Business & Entrepreneurship"The best book I've read in 2018, I highly recommend it. Lots of great ideas in there. Lots of good mental models and constructs."web View source ↗
Keith Rabois
Finance & Investing"Quite powerful, albeit often redundant."
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Chris Dixon
Finance & Investing"This was up there with Black Swan and [the author's] other classics."
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Ryan Shea
Business & Entrepreneurship"Ryan Shea recommended this book on Twitter."
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Marc Andreessen
Finance & Investing"Skin in the game as conflict of interest, or as attaching one's livelihood to one's speech? Who to listen to, and why."
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Ben Horowitz
Business & Entrepreneurship"A book about the dynamics of how large-scale, highly random systems behave."
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Changpeng Zhao
Finance & Investing"I see this book as a complement to 'Economics in One Lesson.' And it's an excellent read on its own."
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