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The former trader gained international acclaim with his best-selling books Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. His writings examine uncertainty and errors in human knowledge and explain how to deal with unpredictability. Taleb is currently a professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His latest book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms goes on sale Nov. 30. Submit your questions for Nassim Taleb below, then read the interview in an upcoming issue of TIME magazine.