Thinking in Bets

Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke

Summary: A poker player teaches us how to decide under uncertainty

Score: 75 / 100

The quality of your decision has only a partial impact on the outcome as it is driven also by a sheer/bad luck.

You can make a great decision but can have a bad luck. In that case, people usually link the bad luck to a bad decision which is a fallacy.

I finished only about half of the book, it started drifting into stories about people and regurgitating ideas from other books.

I finished it during our trip to Rychlebky, listening with earphones when walking. And then when driving alone from Ústí/Orlicí.