“Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, they have no downside from being wrong, and therefore no incentive to be right.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why It's Lindy
An argument that having personal risk in the outcome of decisions is the foundation of fairness, commercial efficiency, ethics, and the resilience of systems.
About This Volume
An argument that having personal risk in the outcome of decisions is the foundation of fairness, commercial efficiency, ethics, and the resilience of systems. Without skin in the game, experts and institutions become dangerously detached from consequences.
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An argument that having personal risk in the outcome of decisions is the foundation of fairness, commercial efficiency, ethics, and the resilience of systems.
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An argument that having personal risk in the outcome of decisions is the foundation of fairness, commercial efficiency, ethics, and the resilience of systems. Without skin in the game, experts and institutions become dangerously detached from consequences.
