What I love about Taleb is that he is as an independent thinker as a human being can possibly be. He has no pressure to publish and his intellectual pursuits are freely chosen (this is true authenticity). He has the courage to call people charlatans, frauds, and hucksters, a quality I greatly admire. He also puts his money, both figuratively and literally, where his mouth is. Some people, not surprisingly, despise him for what they perceive to arrogance. I, however, can’t help but notice that only egomaniacs are offended by an egomaniac.

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