On the Edge - How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think

NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 BY From the In the bestselling These professional risk takers--poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors--can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century. By embedding within the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, and many others, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. The River has increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset--including the flaws in their thinking--is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. There are certain commonalities in this otherwise diverse group: high tolerance for risk; appreciation of uncertainty; affinity for numbers; skill at de-coupling; self-reliance and a distrust of the conventional wisdom. For the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it, without going beyond the pale. Taking us behind-the-scenes from casinos to venture capital firms to the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement,

Product details

• Authors: Nate Silver, Silver Nate
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2024
• EAN: 9780593833322
• ISBN: 978-0-593-83332-2
• No. of pages: 559
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Forecasting, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Mathematics, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Sudoku & Number Puzzles, economic forecasting, Sudoku and number puzzles