Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Taleb’s The Hidden Asymmetries of Everyday Life If you’d like to read more from this book, you can download the pdf format of this book from our site for free.
Taleb is a provocative non-fiction book that has the ability to make the reader rethink many of the risk/reward assumptions we have about ourselves. Citing the importance of managing risk, Taleb, a professional with strong background in probability and statistics involved in options trading, sings a loud hue on ‘skin in the game’ as an important ingredient in making major decisions since it strengthens fairness and commercial sense, effective run of risks, and clear perception of the world.
About the Author
Traded options for two decades before writing, and the trading is the argument rather than the biography: he made money on rare violent moves that models said should not happen, and has spent his career since insisting that those moves are the only ones that…
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