Nate Silver Says Don't Be a Nit in Life | Life Outside Poker #15
In the 15th episode, Connor speaks with statistician Nate Silver about his new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, election forecasting, founding and leaving FiveThirtyEight, his bad beats at feature tables, and co-hosting the Risky Business podcast with Maria Konnikova.
Silver also discusses the upcoming US presidential election, sports analytics, Limit Hold'em, his Silver Bulletin newsletter and why no one should be a nit in life.
This interview was filmed on June 8 at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
0:00 Intro
00:52 Interest in numbers
5:18 Politics
9:55 2024 election
11:40 2016 election
15:29 High school debate
17:38 Don't be a nit
22:53 On the Edge
27:48 Sam Bankman-Fried
32:46 Book interviews
42:21 How poker has changed
46:07 Televized bad beats at WSOP
53:55 Substack & podcast
56:41 Maria Konnikova
59:33 What makes you hopeful?
1:30:00 Advice for younger self
1:04:14 Life lesson from poker
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