Naval Ravikant mentioned Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb 31 times

Nasim Talab had that great blog post and chapter in his book Skin in the Game about the intolerant minority.

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Depends what you want. Science or philosophy or...? Beginning of Infinity, Rational Optimist, Skin in the Game are all amazing. If you want more eastern philosophy, try Siddhartha, I am That, Jed McKenna.

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Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...

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I wouldn’t waste time, honestly. Read Taleb or Deutsch instead.

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[I recommend] The Beginning of Infinity Skin in the Game Siddhartha Direct Truth Snow Crash

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Start with The Beginning of Infinity. Then read Matt Ridley, Nick Szabo, David Deutsch, Nassim Taleb, Schopenhauer, Peter Thiel, Popper, Feynman, Art DeVany, Scott Adams, Jed McKenna. Recognize them when they challenge socially enforced mass-delusions with science and logic.

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The books that I can read quickly, I don’t recommend. The books I recommend are ones that I savor, so the list doesn’t change much. Read and re-read everything by Deutsch, Taleb, Feynman, and Ridley. Come back when you’re done 😉.

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David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity.” Matt Ridley, “The Rational Optimist.” Nassim Taleb, “Skin in the Game.” Richard Feynman, “Six Easy Pieces.”

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Everything by David Deutsch, Nassim Taleb and Matt Ridley.

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Deutsch, Taleb, and Feynman mainly. Also Bohr, Schrödinger, Mandelbrot, Chait, Gödel, Rovelli, others (I know, some are mathematicians and some have never written a formal book on philosophy). On the non-physicist Western side, currently reading Schopenhauer.

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Yeah. Taleb’s Skin In The Game is required reading. If you want to get anywhere in modern life and understand how modern systems work, then Skin In The Game would be near the top of my list to read.

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2019-12-25 on nav.al

[The five wisest people living today are] Jed McKenna, @KapilGuptaMD, Charlie Munger, @nntaleb One, and one who won’t want to be named

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Taleb’s Skin in the Game doesn’t mean identity / incentive. It means suffering downside risk if you are wrong. AI scientists have the opposite situation. They get personal benefits if they’re right and socialize the losses if they’re wrong.

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Matt Ridley, Neal Stephenson, Taleb, Borges, Ted Chiang, Anthony DeMello, Osho, J Krishnamurti, Harari, Asimov, Bradbury, Greg Egan, Feynman, Schrödinger, Bohr, Chris Alexander, the Durants, Darwin, Adam Smith, David Deutsch, Karl Popper, Douglas Hofstader, Douglas Adams

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Skin in the Game is the Lindy book of the year.

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I think it's an amazing book. Everybody should read it. I've read it twice now.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

I think it's an amazing book. Everybody should read it. I've read it twice now.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

I actually went through Skin in the Game recently (Nassim Taleb's book) and I went through it very slowly. It took me the better part of months because that was the kind of book that I really wanted to absorb. So I would read two, four pages at a time and take a lot of notes, which I rarely do. I'm not a note taker but with Skin in the Game I took notes because there are a lot of good original concepts in there.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

I actually went through skin in the game recently and I went through it very slowly. It took me the better part of months because that was the kind of book that I really wanted to absorb. I would read two to four pages at a time and take a lot of notes, which I really do, I'm not a note taker, but with skin of the game I took notes because there are a lot of good original concepts in there.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

Talking live with @nntaleb at @goBLOCKCON on Oct 11. We'll cover my favorite book of 2018, Skin in the Game, and weave in some crypto.

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Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.

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I can’t choose one. But Skin in the Game for practical and Anthony De Mello’s “Awareness” for philosophical.

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Skin in the Game.

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I’m absorbing Skin in the Game slowly and methodically.

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[Skin in the Game is the] Best book since Sapiens and possibly better (it’s more actionable).

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Skin in the game is the best book I read in 2018. I highly recommend it for everybody. It's got lots and lots of great ideas in there. Lots of good mental models and constructs. Nassim has a bit of an attitude but he has that because he's brilliant and it's okay. So just look past that and read the book. Learn the concepts. It's one of the best business books I've ever read and luckily it doesn't masquerade as a business book.

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2018-06-07 on pscp.tv

Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game is the best book I've read in 2018. I highly recommend it for everybody. It's got lots and lots of great ideas in there. Lots of mental models and constructs. [...] It's one of the best business books I've ever read and luckily it doesn't it doesn't masquerade as a business book.

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2018-06-07 on pscp.tv

I have not read the entire new Taleb book "Skin in the Game". I've been reading parts of it. I read big parts of it on the internet when he was posting them as Medium posts and there are some very very fundamental things in there including the minority rule, which I think everyone should understand. Obviously [also] the skin the game concept. He's got a bunch of others. So I would definitely recommend his book even though I'm not finished with it.

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2018-04-30 on pscp.tv

I have not read the entire new Taleb book Skin in the Game. I've been reading parts of it on the internet when he was posting them as medium posts and there are some very, very fundamental things in there including the minority rule, which I think everyone should understand. Obviously the Skin in the Game concept, but he's got a bunch of others so I would definitely recommend his book even though I'm not finished with it.

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2018-04-30 on pscp.tv

Add Carlo Rovelli, Will and Ariel Durant, Osho, Ted Chiang, Cixin Liu, Taleb, Kevin Simler to this:

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Most Intolerant Minority, Skin in the Game, Elephant in the Brain, cross-generational hedonic adaptation, and broad funnels + tight filters. That was this week. I can’t remember last month.

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