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Thinking in Bets

Media

3 creators

Tracking VC investment decisions — recording what she liked/disliked about each company and the reasoning behind yes/no decisions, then reviewing to improve future decision-making

"Annie Duke inspired this — I create, she wrote this book Thinking in Bets — a pre-mortem. So every time I meet with a company and I dig in on it a little bit, I write to myself what I liked, what I didn't like, what the deal would have been, and if I got ye..."

Sarah Tavel

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Balatro

Software

2 creators

Personal gaming; also used as a test case for AI computer use

"I had Astra use computer use to play a video game that I very much enjoy playing called Balatro. It's sort of like a modified poker game. It did very well. It won. I was not able to win."

John Coogan

Learning poker tells and psychological strategy for competitive play

"The best book of all - the best my favorite book is this guy Mike Caro. There's a book called Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tales."

Ari Shaffir

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partypoker

Software

1 creator

Online poker to earn income while at Stanford; started with a freeroll tournament after losing the initial $25 signup bonus

"Every Friday partypoker.com had a freeroll tournament for all the new players — thousands of new players that week. And I somehow lucked my way into third place and won 700 bucks, which was the most money I'd ever seen in my life."

Nima Ghamsari