Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a writer, trader and philosopher. He is professor of risk engineering at the University of New York's PhD program in risk engineering. He is also a principal at Universa Investments. One of the world's leading authorities on decision-making under uncertainty, Taleb has been called "the world's most famous polymath" by The Economist and "the most interesting man in the world" by Steven Pinker
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He is the author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001), The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012) and Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2014). In 2015 his book, The Bed of Procrustes, was published by Random House. After many years spent as a trader and an academic, Taleb started writing books again because he was frustrated with other people's misunderstanding of what a trader does and a philosopher thinks.