This was beter than expected, the book turned out to have a much deeper meaning than gambling and probability. It's philosophical and carries a message of compassion. I hate polarisation (the social and political kind) and this book makes a really good case for the grey areas.

Go read this book, it reads very fast too.

I've shared this one a lot with the people around me and had a lot of good conversations about the idea of thinking in bets. It's definitely influenced how I make decisions in my daily life.

Quite a good book. But a bit longer than it needed to be.

It was a 101 book, and I was hoping for a 201 book.

I really enjoyed this book. The first few chapters really changed the way I think about things and while there were aspects of it I had learnt and known of before, I loved the way she sculpted the lessons and stories with real life examples that seemed pertinent.

The content of the book is pretty good overall. As a Bayesian, I recognized many of the suggestions here by other names. Duke comes from the perspective of game theory and lived experience as a professional poker player, not necessarily from my own Bayesian view, but she nonetheless seems to come to similar conclusions and recommendations. For me, the latter part of the book was somewhat more interesting. I could see recommending this book to even less math-y people looking to make better decisions.

However, I experienced this book as the audiobook read by the author, and I didn't enjoy that experience as much. The pronunciation of words far was very nasal far too often. "Bets" sometimes became "bats", "guessing" became "gassing", and so on. I may have just been in a mood, but it was a consistent turnoff. I'd recommend trying the print experience instead.

Some great ideas. I got most of them from listening to interviews with the author.