Books by Maria Konnikova
“I highly recommend the book to any person because it excels at telling stories about three things I love: self-improvement, poker, and decision-making under imperfect information conditions. The Biggest Bluff details her journey from being a journalist to being a professional poker player. That’s an accrual of divergent skills. She explores the role of luck and the importance of differentiating it from skill. That’s so hard; part of the challenge of becoming a professional poker player is balancing your confidence in your playing ability with understanding how much variance and luck are involved with your life. Despite all the noise and variance happening in one’s poker journey, you have to temper your highs so as not to become overconfident and downplay luck, while also avoiding getting so beaten down that you doubt your own abilities” Read more...
The best books on Making Good Decisions
Sebastian Park, Entrepreneurs & Business People
Interviews where books by Maria Konnikova were recommended
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman & Olivier Sibony -
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But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
by Chuck Klosterman -
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova -
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Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank
by Weijian Shan -
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Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
The best books on Making Good Decisions, recommended by Sebastian Park
The best books on Making Good Decisions, recommended by Sebastian Park
Good decision-making is a crucial skill not only in business but in life. In this interview, entrepreneur, investor and poker player Sebastian Park advises how to make good decisions in a world of uncertainty, how to evaluate past decisions for future improvement, and how fiction can help us reflect on the choices we make.
