Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read (2018)

It can explain the behaviour of many politicians/activists/journalists today. A lot of them are very good at presentation in public with Oscar nominees skills but little integrity. These traits are better fit for today's (mostly) civilzied scociaty than decades ago when activists could lose their lives if they stick with their belief.

Author's critique = 100% infantile sarcasm. I know infantile sarcasm. Read my comments if you doubt. Then both of us will have skin in the game.

WARNING: It's a regular Guardian column, Digested read - "John Crace’s incisive pastiches of the most popular writers, from Bridget Jones to Julian Barnes"

Having read a couple of NNT's books (they're good stuff) I thought it was pretty funny. Kind of. Liven up a morning train trip for a couple of minutes. But not HN-worthy.

> Donald Trump also has skin in the game. People voted for him because they thought he was genuine. He may have lost billions of dollars in stupid investments but at least it was only his own money. That’s skin in the game.

Meh. Ignoring other triggers for the Trump lovers here, but he famously stated he prefers to play with other people's money rather than his own: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-other-pe...

this was a bit confusing without context.

It seems to be a (satire?) book summary. I haven't read Skin in the game.