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Nate Silver

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
833 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Yeah, because they have like a little bit of what it feels like to be an outsider if you're otherwise privileged. But you got a couple of things, right? You're gay and you're half Jewish. Just got a little bit of the flavor of... Adversity. Adversity, but also the ability to code switch, I guess is the term.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You're not necessarily volunteering your entire self at all times. It's also useful in poker. And it's useful in journalism. You don't want to volunteer information in poker. There's a cost to volunteering information. And so learning to be a bit more guarded and feeling like there's no kind of template I can follow that's exactly going to meet my needs, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You're not necessarily volunteering your entire self at all times. It's also useful in poker. And it's useful in journalism. You don't want to volunteer information in poker. There's a cost to volunteering information. And so learning to be a bit more guarded and feeling like there's no kind of template I can follow that's exactly going to meet my needs, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You're not necessarily volunteering your entire self at all times. It's also useful in poker. And it's useful in journalism. You don't want to volunteer information in poker. There's a cost to volunteering information. And so learning to be a bit more guarded and feeling like there's no kind of template I can follow that's exactly going to meet my needs, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I have to take a little bit from different buckets.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I have to take a little bit from different buckets.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I have to take a little bit from different buckets.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

There's some crater on, I think, the moon. Okay. It's a pretty big one. Yeah. They were super overachieving, my dad's side. I have a famous arsonist on my mom's side who got like written up in the New York Times. He like invented new forms of arson and insurance fraud. I'm not actually like an overachieving type. I kind of do it despite myself, really.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

There's some crater on, I think, the moon. Okay. It's a pretty big one. Yeah. They were super overachieving, my dad's side. I have a famous arsonist on my mom's side who got like written up in the New York Times. He like invented new forms of arson and insurance fraud. I'm not actually like an overachieving type. I kind of do it despite myself, really.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

There's some crater on, I think, the moon. Okay. It's a pretty big one. Yeah. They were super overachieving, my dad's side. I have a famous arsonist on my mom's side who got like written up in the New York Times. He like invented new forms of arson and insurance fraud. I'm not actually like an overachieving type. I kind of do it despite myself, really.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so I take after that side of the family, I think.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so I take after that side of the family, I think.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so I take after that side of the family, I think.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Basically, when you have a multinational company and different parts of the company make different things, like you have Apple cell phone and they make semiconductors in Taiwan and the screen in Bangladesh, how you price that can be used to optimize your tax policy. So basically, it's how do you optimize your tax policy without getting sued by the government? Okay.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Basically, when you have a multinational company and different parts of the company make different things, like you have Apple cell phone and they make semiconductors in Taiwan and the screen in Bangladesh, how you price that can be used to optimize your tax policy. So basically, it's how do you optimize your tax policy without getting sued by the government? Okay.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Basically, when you have a multinational company and different parts of the company make different things, like you have Apple cell phone and they make semiconductors in Taiwan and the screen in Bangladesh, how you price that can be used to optimize your tax policy. So basically, it's how do you optimize your tax policy without getting sued by the government? Okay.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Really valuable work we were doing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Really valuable work we were doing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

Really valuable work we were doing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

But I hadn't really thought about it. When you actually have the chance for the first time to earn a paycheck, it's kind of exciting.