Playing Balatro
Making a living at poker requires interpolating between the deliberative and reflexive systems. The best players must find ways to harmonize otherwise irresolvable conflicts.
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Successful gamblers, instead, think of the future as speckles of probability, flickering upward and downward like a stock market ticker to every new jolt of information. When their estimates of these probabilities diverge by a sufficient margin from the odds on offer, they may place a bet.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
I believe the best way to describe this shift is as a shift from legible ambition to illegible ambition. The reason so many people cling to default metrics of success is that other people understand them. Legible ambition is a story that your parents can tell their friends. We fear that not having such legible ambition means we will be cast out of ... See more