Nate Silver Says Don't Be a Nit in Life | Life Outside Poker #15
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.
In the 15th episode, Connor speaks with statistician Nate Silver about his 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 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.
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Time Stamps
| TIME | TOPIC |
|---|---|
| 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? |
| 1:00:30 | Advice for younger self |
| 1:04:14 | Life lesson from poker |
