Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
12 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2018–2022.
1 commenter pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
Skin in the Game is Taleb's insightful observations as usual.
Opens your eyes to a wide array of fallacies that govern our daily life (unknown unknowns, "experts" explaining past events as obvious in retrospect, the news, predictions, survivorship bias, confirmation bias, iatrogenics and a lot, lot more)
It's relevant to quite a lot of current events happening that have a huge impact on modern society.
Only book I've gone back to re-read as soon as I've finished.
Where it comes up
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