A review by jcoker10
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1.0

I love Nassim Taleb. I think Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, and Antifragile are absolutely brilliant and should be required reading in every field. So it pains me to say it: this book is objectively poor. Buried beneath pettiness, unnecessary rants, distracting personal take-downs, and incoherent discussions of Mediterranean history with no context, you see a glimmer of the once great Taleb. This is especially true in the last section, Book 8. But overall, this book lacks the wit, charm, and thoroughness of Taleb's other books. I was extremely disappointed with a book I waited for anxiously-- go read all of Taleb's other books, skip this one. I hope the next installment of Incerto returns to previous form, but I fear that this book marks the end of Taleb as a preeminent thinker.