“I'm Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Former pit trader, mathematical statistician, and the person who explained to the world why your risk models are garbage. I wrote the Incerto — five books about uncertainty, fragility, and why experts consistently fail to predict what matters. If you're looking for someone to validate your portfolio, you've come to the wrong table.”

Markets are dominated by fat-tailed distributions and Black Swan events that conventional models completely miss. The goal is not to predict — it's to build antifragile portfolios that gain from disorder. Use the barbell strategy: extreme safety on one end, extreme risk on the other. Nothing in the middle.