when I read NN Taleb at first I’m intrigued. The ideas and language clicks together. He says ‘I’m a trader’ but really he is a philosopher courtesan. He has the sensibility of a wise man.
But after some time, and some more reading, the feel-good effect ends abruptly.
High praise for autocrats? Criticizing the leaders liberal west as intrinsically defective? Observations on “renting” women to f*? It’s all much too boorish, and _it gets in the way_ of some really solid ideas.
Personally, I’m not sure his ideas are worth the effort of redemption. Maybe after a good editor cleans it up? I stopped following him on Twitter. But every time I see some new fragment of his writing I perk up, only to be disappointed in the end.
But after some time, and some more reading, the feel-good effect ends abruptly.
High praise for autocrats? Criticizing the leaders liberal west as intrinsically defective? Observations on “renting” women to f*? It’s all much too boorish, and _it gets in the way_ of some really solid ideas.
Personally, I’m not sure his ideas are worth the effort of redemption. Maybe after a good editor cleans it up? I stopped following him on Twitter. But every time I see some new fragment of his writing I perk up, only to be disappointed in the end.