Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Thursdays
63 Episodes
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Does Ranked Choice Voting Work? Plus, New AI Predictions
Published: 19/06/2025 -
This Year’s World Series Of Poker Is Different
Published: 12/06/2025 -
An Elon Musk Report Card
Published: 05/06/2025 -
Why ChatGPT Sucks at Poker
Published: 29/05/2025 -
Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond
Published: 21/05/2025 -
What Should Colleges Do about ChatGPT?
Published: 15/05/2025 -
Life After Poker (with Vanessa Selbst)
Published: 08/05/2025 -
The Conclave, Sinners, and Negotiation Tips
Published: 01/05/2025 -
The Right (And Wrong) Ways to Fight Trump
Published: 24/04/2025 -
China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars
Published: 22/04/2025 -
Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?
Published: 17/04/2025 -
Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs
Published: 10/04/2025 -
The Ivy League Bows to Trump, Plus Protecting Your Genetic Data and Your Time
Published: 03/04/2025 -
Group Chat Protocols, Bracket Updates, and thoughts on the WNBA
Published: 27/03/2025 -
March Madness Bracket Extravaganza
Published: 19/03/2025 -
China’s Best Moves, and How to React to a Dealer’s Mistake
Published: 13/03/2025 -
How Trump is Getting the Game Theory Wrong
Published: 06/03/2025 -
Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events
Published: 27/02/2025 -
Trust and Facing the Unknown (with Rachel Botsman)
Published: 20/02/2025 -
Trump’s First Three Weeks: What Actually Matters?
Published: 13/02/2025
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.
