Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-09-11
Books mentioned on How High Risk-Takers Are Shaping Our World | Nate Silver
Nate Silver is an American statistician, poker player, and New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- but Some Don't .
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Edge
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver is an insightful exploration into the psychology, mathematics, and high-stakes decision-making strategies employed by elite risk-takers across diverse fields such as professional poker, finance, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
Discussed“Nate’s latest book is On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, where he dives into the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and more.”
Where to get it
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Ben Smith
Discussed“did you read the Ben Smith book uh no it's pretty like just yeah just as it”
Where to get it
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The Signal and the Noise
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is a comprehensive exploration of predictive modeling, probability, and data analysis that investigates why many predictions fail while others succeed.
Discussed“The thing about poker is you're getting lots of reps with similar situations and—and yeah, mathematical situations, whereas like think about it, so you had some intuition from your first book, then you have intuition from the experience of your second book.”
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Painting as a Pastime
Painting as a Pastime is an essay collection by Winston S.
Discussed“Churchill wrote this book called painting as a Pastime and he said that every like important public person has to have like one or two hobbies”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Signal and the Noise
“Nate Silver is an American statistician, poker player, and New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- but Some Don't”
Passing The Signal and the Noise
“Nate is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and The Noise.”
Own book Conspiracy
“oh yeah that's really funny that and that's what I opened conspiracy with”
Passing Traffic
“Did you read the Ben Smith book?”
Own book On the Edge
“Plus you have a book coming out, which was supposed to come out a year and a half ago; right?”
Own book On the Edge
“Having a book that was unexpected and fun could represent a shift in the desire for politically adjacent content.”