Interdisciplinary Skills: Decision-Making – Annie Duke (2018)
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I'm Ted Seides, and this is Capital Allocators. For the second year, our summer series will share some of the best episodes of the past, curated from our favorites and yours. You can pull down many of the great ones on our Spotify playlists. This series pushes them to your regular listening feed. Our 2026 summer series focuses on improving the investment process. Over the next six weeks, we'll share 10 gems from interdisciplinary skill sets that will help you level up your investing across decision making, interviewing, storytelling, negotiations, and habit formation. Our summer series kickoff
I'm so happy to be here.
You have this background.
I like the way you you say that. Like
Ivy League, educated, poker playing background. Why don't why don't we just start with you taking a little bit of time to talk about your path to poker and then where we are today?
Sure. So I started off doing my undergrad at Columbia. And there, in my freshman year, I met a professor there named Barbara Landau. And she's amazing. She's now at Johns Hopkins and she was studying first language acquisition in children and ended up being her research assistant for four years while I was at Columbia. And at the time, thought, oh, you know, I'm gonna stay in New York because I really, really, really love New York. But she really pushed me to go and study with her adviser for graduate school, a woman named Lila Gleitman and her husband, Henry Gleitman, who were at Penn. So I a
And you almost got it.
Yeah. So so things take a little bit of a turn. I finished my coursework, got my master's, did my qualifying exam, I did my research, and I had all of my job talks lined up. So I was gonna go out for my job talks. I actually got sick right before that and ended up in the hospital for two weeks. So in the academic world, it's a seasonal market. So if you kind of miss that one season, you have to wait a full year. You know, I'd just gotten married. My husband, who's now my ex husband, had a place in Montana, and we said, okay. We'll just go there and, you know, I can recuperate, and then I'll fi
It's kind of wild to come from, I guess, you could call a card playing family. It wasn't this rare thing that one day you said, hey. I'll just go try poker.
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