How do you make a smart and logical decision when you don't have all the facts and probably never will?

When and how do you decide to go against consensus opinion and can you get better decision-making with practice?

Many founders and builders must make many

critical decisions big and small every day and improving the quality of your

decision-making process can become a big competitive advantage.

In this episode from October 2020, expert decision

strategist, author, and professional poker player,

Annie Duke, joins A16C General Partner Jeff Jordan, and they discussed some frameworks, strategies, and tactics for better

decision-making by both individuals and organizations in part based on Annie's second book,

how to decide. This was Annie's second appearance on the podcast.

She first joined A16Z co-founder Mark Andresen and host Sonel Choxie to discuss her first book,

Thinking in Betts,

where she, Mark, and Sonal talked about how to frame taking risks

and placing Betts, especially in the context of innovation.

You can find a link to that episode,

plus the transcripts for both episodes of

Annie Duke in the show notes.

Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I am Sonal.

Today we have another one of our early book lunch episodes for a new book coming out next week by expert decision

strategist and leading world series of poker player Annie Duke.

You can catch the podcast we did with her a couple years ago for the paperback release of her first book, Thinking in Bets.

That episode was at me and Mark interviewing Annie and was titled Innovating in Bets,

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