Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of
Fooled by Randomness and
The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the
New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.
From the Hardcover edition.