Questions About Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)

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Avs Sai Babu What one book/resource would you suggest to a total noob trying to understanding probability and statistics?

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SO excited about this book. Hopefully NNT has gotten past the petty personal nastiness that tainted his last work; I understand he needed to tell some very powerful people "I TOLD YOU SO" but in truth, making billions should have been validation enough :-). Still, brilliant man. Do you think this is going to be worth the wait?

loafingcactus Ha, this one is even worse!

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Is this a standalone book in this series, or does this book require me to read previous books in this series?

Maarten Smit One can read it standalone, but he refers to many aspects/ideas from his earlier books. Personally read them in chronological order.

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A question, how can the book be 272 pages when the book will be firstly published 1/7/2018?!

Blank I'm sorry, what? …moreI'm sorry, what? (less)

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I didn't quite catch who was Fat Tony from Brooklyn/NJ. Is he of Italian descent and where can I find my own Fat Tony? And he doesn't necessarily have to be fat, but for some reason they all are. Why?

Maarten Smit Fat Tony is introduced on page 122 of the Black Swan. His motto is: “finding who the sucker is”. I think the point Taleb is trying to make is that som…moreFat Tony is introduced on page 122 of the Black Swan. His motto is: “finding who the sucker is”. I think the point Taleb is trying to make is that someone relatively uneducated can outsmart many intellectuals in the real world by being street smart instead of theoretically smart. (less)

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