The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We hear from Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova, poker sharps and co-hosts of the Pushkin show “Risky Business,” as they share the year’s most notable decisions in their first annual Riskies award show. What were the best, worst and wildest decisions of 2024, from politics to sports to business? Also: degen of the year, nit of the year, and the cognitive bias that best explains 2024.
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| 1:00.1 | Find Revenge of the Tipping Point wherever you find audiobooks out now. Hey there, Michael Lewis here. As we ease on over into 2025, I wanted to share a fun award show that my friends over at Risky Business just held. That show is all about being smarter when it comes to risk about how to make |
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