Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 9780241247488
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 9780241247488
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This book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Nassim Taleb, Nick Kokonas, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-05-11 and the most recent from 2023-09-07. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping tapestry for understanding our world in a brand new way.
“they could just avoid some trade but let me explain to you the Dynamics of the bonus system and this is this led to my book skin in a game”— Nassim Taleb
The guest here is Nassim Taleb and Scott Patterson: Nassim Taleb, former options trader and author of Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile, now advisor to the Universa tail-risk hedge fund; Scott Patterson, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Chaos Kings. Nassim Taleb and journalist Scott Patterson on tail risk, the precautionary principle, and how traders profit from crisis.
“that's a quote taken from your book skin in the game yeah raymond that's raymond's phrase”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Jane Wurwand: Scottish-born skin therapist and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Dermal Institute and Dermalogica with her husband Raymond, building it into a multi-hundred-million-dollar global skincare brand acquired by Unilever in 2015. Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand on building a skincare empire, the cost of relentless work, and confronting buried trauma through therapy.
“both that and skin in the game are fascinating and what's been interesting in this is that you know he he has the generalized Reuben principle”— Nick Kokonas
The guest here is Nick Kokonas: Co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group of restaurants and a former derivatives trader. He is also founder and CEO of Tock, a reservations and CRM platform for restaurants used by clients in more than 30 countries. Restaurateur Nick Kokonas explains how Alinea and his Tock startup pivoted to record revenue during the COVID-19 shutdown through asymmetric thinking and rapid execution.
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