

Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
Pushkin Industries
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.
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
On the Edge
The Art of Risking Everything

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Fight

#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Trust and Be Trusted

#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Your Face Belongs to Us

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Abundance

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The confidence game
Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The 48 laws of power

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Doomsday Book

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
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#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Global Tech Wars
China's Race to Dominate
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Harvard Derangement Syndrome
op-ed in The New York Times

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The better angels of our nature
Why Violence Has Declined

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
An Abundance of Caution
American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of the Worst Policy Failure in a Century

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes