Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his
life immersing himself in problems of luck uncertainty probability and knowledge and he has
led three high-profile careers around his ideas as a man of letters as a businessman-trader
and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk
Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume
INCERTO ( Antifragile The Black Swan Fooled by Randomness and The Bed of Procrustes ).
Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive
sports.
