Skin in the Game

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English language

Published Sept. 12, 2018 by Allen Lane Penguin Random House UK.

ISBN:
978-0-241-30065-7
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4 stars (14 reviews)

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Review of 'Skin in the Game' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Qué cuñao es este hombre, aunque me resulta simpático, sobre todo por su desprecio a los autores del mainstream bendecido por el New York Times y compañía, estilo Pinker. Su tendencia a estropear cada afirmación más o menos razonable con una colección de cuñadeces estilo "el levantamiento de pesas hará de ti un hombre, muchacho" cada vez es más acentuada, y este libro carece de una estructura más o menos reconocible, lo que le lleva a repetirse más de la cuenta. Sin embargo, todavía tiene un pase como lectura ligera.

Review of 'Skin in the Game' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

Having read the Black Swan, as one will discover in my other reviews, I wanted to see if Taleb's more recent work was different than the now more dated aforementioned title. I will summarize this book by saying it is probably the best worst book I have read. Why?

The worst aspect concerns the fact that Taleb is either pagan, or clearly has some idolizing of pagans up to and including Roman Emperors. He states at one point that he believes pagans are intellectually superior to those of believers--or actually his exact words are that is "his heuristic." I will grant him believers have not provided a portrait of stunning intellectual prowess as time has progressed but he should know why. As the belief has persisted and grown, it has been subject to the very phenomena he describes as YHSVH was the foremost Black Swan of the last 2,000 …

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3 stars

Nassim is smart but he's such a blow-hard. He constantly says that "person x is not rigorous" and yet he himself doesn't display any of this rigor he values so much.

He says "this is not ergodic..." or "lacks ergodicity" and always adds "we'll define that soon... I'm coming to that..." but he never does.

He has some good ideas, and his general idea for this book, that people should have skin in the game, is probably valid. But it could be argued far more effectively in a far shorter book by a much better writer.

Review of 'Skin in the Game' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I picked up this book because I thought it would be in the same vein as "Winners Take All" by Anand Giridharadas...but it just wasn't even close. I don't even know how to describe this book. You know that pompous ***clown who corners you at a party droning on and on about his own genius until you seriously consider faking a peanut allergy? It's like if that guy was a book. I mean, forgive me, I'm not an "IYI" (Intellectual Yet Idiot) - I'm just an idiot, so I missed anything that resembled a point he was trying to make. I think I was distracted by the author's seething hatred of intellectuals, people who take his parking space, and - for some reason - Steven Pinker.

And I didn't disagree with everything he said. Yes, journalistic integrity has been sacrificed for the sound bite used to elicit an emotional reaction. …

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