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ON THE EDGE
How Successful Gamblers Think and What It Tells Us About Navigating Risk
ON THE EDGE explores how professional risk takers in many exploding fields - gambling, hedge funds, the art market, real estate, cryptocurrency, etc - think and what they can teach us all about how to navigate risk. Silver calls these thinkers "The Pool", and he argues here that they are the best guides to the world as it is now. As
The book is based on Nate Silver's interviews with key players in each of these fields and weave their insights in with his own analysis. If Silver's bestselling SIGNAL argued for probabilistic thinking in a BLACK SWAN world, ON THE EDGE teaches us how to make smarter bets in an ever riskier, more complex universe.
This is a book for readers of Michael Lewis, Nassim Taleb, Sebastian Mallaby, and Gregory Zuckerman.
Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight (https://fivethirtyeight.com/)
This is a book for readers of Michael Lewis, Nassim Taleb, Sebastian Mallaby, and Gregory Zuckerman.
Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight (https://fivethirtyeight.com/)
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Published 2024-08-13 by Penguin Press |