On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think by Silver, Nate
On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think by Silver, Nate

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

NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 BY FT, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times From the New...
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On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think by Silver, Nate

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

$72.48
On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think by Silver, Nate

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

$72.48
Author: Nate Silver
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 BY FT, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk--and the players raising the stakes

In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape--and dominate--so much of modern life.

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, On the Edge is a deeply-reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of powerbrokers and risk takers.

Author: Nate Silver
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594204128

About the Author
Nate Silver is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise. He writes the Substack "Silver Bulletin."
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