#053 - Skin in the Game: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(08:16) Core Concepts

(12:10) Important Prologue One

(29:10) Important Prologue Two

(45:04) Prologue Three

(49:42) A First Look at Agency

(1:05:00) Ethics Problems in Scaling

(1:09:00) The Minority Rule

(1:29:40) Employment & FU Money, Freedom

(1:47:26) Status, Manners & Competence

(1:49:55) On Taking Risks

(1:55:35) The Intellectual Yet Idiot

(2:04:17) The Lindy Effect Recap

(2:09:10) Deeper Into Agency

(2:11:58) The Illusion of Business Plans

(2:15:00) Charlie Munger, Show Rather Than Be

(2:17:15) Financial Minimalism, Mimesis

(2:24:22) Virtues & Advice for Young People

(2:26:37) The Interventionistas

(2:28:36) Religion, Belief, & SITG

(2:31:10) Most Important, Book 8: Risk & Rationality

(2:51:05) Epilogue

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Referenced Material:

Cyrus on "Financial Minimalism", Viral Essay: https://www.rationalvc.com/articles/minimalism

Also listen to the prior three podcast episodes - each covered the other books of Taleb's Incerto Series.

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