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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
AuthorNassim Nicholas Taleb
Published2018
Recommended2 times
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Why it’s on the listTaleb’s argument that people who make decisions should bear the consequences of them — and that systems where they do not are both unfair and fragile.

Where I heard about it

  • Matt Mullenweg — on his “29 Books in 2019” list on ma.tt (January 2020), as “Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.”
  • Recommended in Jim O’Shaughnessy’s investing book-recommendations thread on X (started February 2019, extended through 2021); in April 2020 — 1 Some book recommendations Rules… (tweet).

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