Person
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author and former options trader
Author credited in Episode 139 with popularising the term "skin in the game" — choosing to incur personal risk in pursuit of a goal. Referenced, not interviewed. The episode uses his framing to argue that most modern politicians and business leaders have little genuinely at stake in the decisions they make, and that Winston Churchill is a striking exception. See Skin in the Game.
Discussed in
- Episode 139 — 139-winston-churchill-lessons-for-modern-day-leaders