The Business of Being Right
EPISODE 176: Probability.
The teaser image above — the strategy of which is alluded to in Tuesday’s episode, with Nate DiMeo — isn’t what this episode, with
, is entirely about.(Welcome to NATE WEEK, btw.)
Because yes: like a Spirit Halloween, or lobster rolls in Maine, America is most interested in Nate Silver during a very specific season.
But I wanted to sit down with him afterward.
So that we could talk about:
What it’s like to be in the business of being right… while also fighting that very same description. (Often on Twitter.)
Why Nate’s meticulous new book, On the Edge, surprised me, as it pertains to a couple of the most powerful billionaires on the planet.
How his worldview courses through Silicon Valley, which fancies itself America’s fortress of rationality — while so often embodying the opposite.
Also: narrow mandates; dirty diapers; Neymar; and the value of statistical life.
(I don’t know how you feel about Nate, dear subscriber. But I hope you trust me when I say that you’ll find this valuable, regardless.)
YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:
Probabilistically,
Pablo