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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

July 9, 2018

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (Chapter from Skin in the Game) How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section — Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion — How to make a market […]

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Sustainability Boils Down to Scale

May 18, 2018

Sustainability Boils Down to Scale Only small scale systems can sustainably impose “skin in the game”– consequences, accountability and oversight. Several conversations I had at the recent Peak Prosperity conference in Sonoma, CA sparked an insight into why societies and economies thrive or fail: It All Boils Down to Scale. In a conversation with a […]

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“I hope for Goldman Sachs’ bankruptcy”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game

March 13, 2018

PHOTO: DAN CALLISTER/REX “I hope for Goldman Sachs’ bankruptcy”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game In Taleb’s universe, the fieriest circle of hell is reserved for bankers and neoconservatives. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an intellectual brawler, a philosophical pugilist. His new book, Skin in the Game, put me in mind of the final scene […]

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What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version

March 6, 2018

What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version When selecting a surgeon for your next brain procedure, should you pick a surgeon who looks like a butcher or one who looks like a surgeon? The logic of skin in the game implies you need to select the one who (while credentialed) looks […]

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The Controversy around Skin in the Game

February 26, 2018

The Controversy around Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is another addition to the Incerto, now volume 5; I avoided duplication by referring to where in the Incerto some points were developed such as via negativa or monoculture of forecasters or expert problems. You simply don’t repeat in chapter 23 what was said in […]

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Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn’t as bad as that of all humankind 

February 5, 2018

Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn’t as bad as that of all humankind It should be obvious that the death of an individual human being isn’t as bad as the death of all humankind. But that’s only true if you accept the following premise laid out by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his upcoming […]

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On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects

April 23, 2017

On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects Excerpted from the preface of Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is necessary to reduce the effects of the following divergences that arose mainly as a side effect of civilization: action and cheap talk (tawk), consequence and intention, practice and theory, honor and reputation, expertise and pseudoexpertise, concrete […]

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