On The Edge Book Summary
The Art of Risking Everything
Book by Nate Silver
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"On the Edge" takes readers on a captivating journey through the high-stakes world of poker, sports betting, and risk-taking, revealing the counterintuitive strategies and mental habits that allow gamblers and daredevils to thrive in the face of daunting odds.
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The Promise of Game Theory
"Poker has been around for roughly two centuries, but the vast majority of poker hands ever played by humans—probably at least 95 percent if not as much as 99 percent—have been played in the past twenty or twenty-five years."
Section: 1, Chapter: 1
Humanity's Gamble
"So the world finds itself at another pivot point. There was 1776, with the American Revolution, and there was the Industrial Revolution. There was 1945, with the end of World War II, and reorientation of the global order amid the emergence of the Information Age. And there is today."
Section: 2, Chapter: 9
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