*Skin in the Game*, the new Nassim Taleb book

By some mysterious mechanism, people fail to realize that the principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor…

And:

…the deep message of this book is the danger of universalism taken two or three steps too far — conflating the micro and the macro.

This is Taleb’s deepest and most Straussian book, quickly you will notice that the Levant and the ancient world haunt the pages.  It may mystify some of his more casual fans, but I am happy to recommend it — it is the manly book Taleb wanted to write and it is full of ideas.  After all, he had skin in the game.

His closing advice is this:

  1. Never engage in virtue signaling;
  2. Never engage in rent-seeking;
  3. You must start a business. Put yourself on the line, start a business.

You can pre-order it here.

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