Annie Duke had the last laugh.
It was the final moments of a one-hour Ask Me Anything Zoom session with about 20 readers of her books and Substack newsletter, both of which have turned her into a guru on the topic of decision-making . People and companies spend big to hear Duke dispense wisdom about how to emotionally and intellectually prepare oneself to make smart, healthy choices about life, work, and relationships – so the viewers who logged in here squeeze the most out of this freebie. Annie Duke’s advice
She’d already answered this last question a few different ways – a fellow wanted to know how to “do the right thing” even when people around you don’t understand or agree – but, of course, she riffed anyway. It’s a convoluted answer that requires an understanding of her approach to “cognitive biases” and “making tribes,” but eventually she concluded with this: “Everybody likes to feel better than everybody else. That’s sort of my big advice on decision-making.” Something about that line made her emit a tiny giggle. Then she thanked her audience, beckoned them to read her newsletter and sign up for her $2,000-a-person Maven class. As she waved goodbye from her attic in Philadelphia and hit whatever button shut down the Zoom, my last image that day was of the infectious smile of someone who is triumphantly in her element . Better off outside the poker world
In all the years I covered and interviewed Annie Duke the Poker Player , I never saw her this happy, this at ease with herself. Not even when she racked up $4 million in tournament winnings and certainly not when she was at a table trying to get a read on her opponents.
She’s better off without the poker world. The poker world, however, could certainly still use someone like her.
There are reasons for this. Annie Duke was a groundbreaking female poker player in a world that had precious few of them, having started in the early 1990s when she quit graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania a few beats shy of […]
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