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Never hire an academic unless his function is to partake of the rituals of writing papers or taking exams.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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