How High Risk-Takers Are Shaping Our World | Nate Silver

About this episode

<p>Nate Silver is an American statistician, poker player, and New York Times bestselling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- but Some Don't </em></a>. Nate’s latest book is <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/on-the-edge-the-art-of-risking-everything?_pos=1&amp;_sid=c86eba651&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything</em></a>, where he dives into the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and more. These professional high risk-takers fall into the group that Nate describes as “The River”, a community of people that have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society.</p><p>Nate came to the Daily Stoic studio to talk with Ryan about incentives in large media corporations with independent media, ethical challenges of audience capture, financial motives in journalism, conflicts between truth-seeking and profitability, the dynamics of tech versus traditional media, effective altruism, and much more.&nbsp;</p><p>Nate is the founder of <em>FiveThirtyEight</em> and the New York Times bestselling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Signal and The Noise</em></a>.&nbsp;</p><p>📚 Grab a signed copy of <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/on-the-edge-the-art-of-risking-everything?_pos=1&amp;_sid=c86eba651&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything</em></a><strong> </strong>by Nate Silver| <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/on-the-edge-the-art-of-risking-everything?_pos=1&amp;_sid=c86eba651&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thepaintedporch.com/</a></p><br><p>Subscribe to Nate Silver’s Substack: <a href="https://www.natesilver.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Silver Bulletin</a></p><p>Connect with Nate Silver on <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">X: @NateSilver538</a></p><br><p>🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at <a href="http://ryanholiday.net/tour" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ryanholiday.net/tour</a></p><br><p>✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at <a href="https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><br><p>🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.dailystoic.com/</a></p><br><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Instagram</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> YouTube</a>,<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> TikTok</a>, and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook</a></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>