Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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  • Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.

    Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.

    Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.

    Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.
    2024 Pushkin Industries & iHeartMedia, Inc. 2024
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Episodes
  • Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman

    Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman
    Sep 5 2024

    Maria sits down with the great Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Billions, The Bear) to learn about how he navigates risk in Hollywood and beyond. They discuss his methods of determining when a risk is worth taking, how to offset risk with hard work, and the time he bet big on Billions.

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    48 mins
  • Amazing Frauds, Faking Your Own Death, and the Latest on the Election

    Amazing Frauds, Faking Your Own Death, and the Latest on the Election
    Aug 29 2024

    Nate and Maria briefly discuss the latest election news. Then Tim Harford, author and host of Cautionary Tales, joins to discuss two of history’s most compelling con artists: Sam Israel III and John Law. Risk-related lessons are learned.

    Further Reading:

    A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth and Fiction from the New York Times

    The Murderer, The Boy King, and The Invention of Modern Finance from NPR (featuring our EP Jacob Goldstein!)

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    55 mins
  • Kamala Edition: Taxes, Tariffs, and the DNC

    Kamala Edition: Taxes, Tariffs, and the DNC
    Aug 21 2024

    This week Nate and Maria discuss the state of Kamala Harris’ presidential bid, including taking a look at her first policy proposals on price gouging and taxes on tips.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    40 mins
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