Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-09-11
Ryan Holiday & Nate Silver: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
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 .
Ryan Holiday discussed On the Edge by Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, and Painting as a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill. Nate Silver discussed Ben Smith by Ben Smith.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Edge
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
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.”
Where to get it
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Painting as a Pastime
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”
Where to get it
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.”
Plugged 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?”
Plugged On the Edge
“Plus you have a book coming out, which was supposed to come out a year and a half ago; right?”
Plugged On the Edge
“Having a book that was unexpected and fun could represent a shift in the desire for politically adjacent content.”