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Skin in the Review: The Hidden Asymmetries of Taleb's Skin in the Game

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a great deal of wisdom: it's unfortunate that it is obscured by painting with too broad a brush.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote a book— Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life —but I don’t know what kind of book he wanted to write. (I do know Taleb enjoys italicizing, though; in what follows, the emphases in quotations always belong to the author, not this reviewer.) So what kind of book is Skin in the Game ? It’s just not clear. Perhaps it is a self-help book: Simply: if you can’t put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else (42). Never engage in virtue signaling (189). But maybe not, because the book contains aphorisms like these: Not everything

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