I wish Taleb would stop making up weird phrases and pushing them in his writing. What does &quot;skin in the game&quot; even mean? I mean linguistically. It&#x27;s a weird phrase that I still have trouble parsing and have to stop and think every time I see it. Why not &quot;involvement&quot;? Why &quot;game&quot;? Which meaning of &quot;game&quot; is even in this? Does he mean &quot;have a portion of the skin of the game animal that would be killed at the end of the hunt allotted to you&quot;? Or is it &quot;to wager some of one&#x27;s own skin on the outcome of a game&quot;? But then your skin isn&#x27;t really in the game per se, is it? As in, it doesn&#x27;t take active part in the game, right? So how is it &quot;in&quot; the &quot;game&quot;? It just hurts my head :(