Since reading Maria Konnikova’s terrific new book The Biggest Bluff, I have been on a poker kick. She describes her journey to the World Series of Poker Main Event, poker’s biggest stage, and what it is like to be there. This got me interested in the tournament and its history. I knew poker got incredibly […]
Books
One Sentence Takeaways from Sixteen Books
I often wonder how much I retain when I read. I’ll think about a book a lot while I’m reading it, and for the next month or so afterwords, but then largely forget about it. There are a few books I think about a lot, even years afterward (The Black Swan, The Power of Habit […]