Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin in the Game

Excerpt From Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin in the Game



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The book is about how much information one should practically share with others, and what a used car salesman should or shouldn’t tell you about the vehicle you’re about to purchase.





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The book is organized in the following manner. It doesn't take more than about sixty pages for the reader to get the importance, prevalence, and ubiquity of skin in the game (that is, symmetry) in most of its aspects. But never engage in detailed explanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.