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âThe Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to
Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Winâ
By Maria Konnikova
326 pages
Konnikova is a psychologist with an interest in con artistry and game theory. She approached her publisher inspired by Colson Whiteheadâs Noble Shuffle, where a magazine gave a novelist 10K to play a Vegas poker tournament. It was an entertainment. Konnikova does another take â ultimately as entertaining, and more helpful to the novice.
The author wasnât a player when she pitched the idea to her publisher, but gave herself a year to try to win at a Vegas tournament. She gained the interest of Eric Seidel, a famous tournament player, who gave her lots of insight and advice. Going in, her view of the poker world was very much colored by poker movies and poker memoirs, but she chose the right mentor.
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It s been a year for glumly refreshing live blogs and breaking news websites. But we have managed to get some reading done too. Here, our writers and editors have picked out our favourite books released in 2020 across the broad range of areas that WIRED covers.
Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener
In this memoir,
New Yorker tech correspondent Anna Wiener recounts her experiences as a millennial diving into San Francisco’s tech startup scene. Disillusioned with her job in publishing, Wiener moves from New York to Silicon Valley, with its promises of building a better future for all – and a more exciting present for those in its club. The book follows her experiences working for multiple startups, with skewering descriptions of a sector that, while ahead technologically, seems in other ways to be wildly out of touch. Covering issues such as sexism, surveillance and San Francisco’s homeless crisis, it reveals a world that hides a pit of moral quandaries beneath its shi
Episode Notes
On the Gist, the shrinking list of Democrats in Congress. And, today in
Remembrances of Things Trump: Trump trying to surprise the parents of British teenager Harry Dunn with their son’s killer.
In the interview, the Gist’s favorite guest, Maria Konnikova, is back for another round of “Is That Bullshit?” She and Mike talk about long shot political wins and describe what it meant for Donald Trump to draw an inside straight in 2016. It’s a great hand to bluff with, but oftentimes it can be a bad strategy in poker and in life. Maria’s book