Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of
uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two
decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a
full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006.
Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his
study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York
University’s Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is
“decision making under opacity”—that is, a map and a protocol on
how we should live in a world we don’t understand.
Taleb’s books have been published in forty-one languages.
Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The most prophetic voice of all.”—GQ
Praise for The Black Swan
“[A book] that altered modern thinking.”—The Times (London)
“A masterpiece.”—Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired, author
of The Long Tail
“Idiosyncratically brilliant.”—Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles
Times
“The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works.”—Daniel
Kahneman, Nobel laureate
“[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as
it does to Michel de Montaigne. . . . We eagerly romp with him
through the follies of confirmation bias [and] narrative
fallacy.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Hugely enjoyable—compelling . . . easy to dip into.”—Financial
Times
“Engaging . . . The Black Swan has appealing cheek and admirable
ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The most prophetic voice of all."-GQ
Praise for The Black Swan
"[A book] that altered modern thinking."-The Times
(London)
"A masterpiece."-Chris Anderson, editor in chief of
Wired, author of The Long Tail
"Idiosyncratically brilliant."-Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles
Times
"The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works."-Daniel
Kahneman, Nobel laureate
"[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as
it does to Michel de Montaigne. . . . We eagerly romp with him
through the follies of confirmation bias [and] narrative
fallacy."-The Wall Street Journal
"Hugely enjoyable-compelling . . . easy to dip
into."-Financial Times
"Engaging . . . The Black Swan has appealing cheek and admirable
ambition."-The New York Times Book
Review
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