Whether he's truly a gladly or not, you have to appreciate a guy who's self-aware enough about such opinions that he listed this quip first on the back cover of

Whether he's truly a gladly or not, you have to appreciate a guy who's self-aware enough about such opinions that he listed this quip first on the back cover of his latest book (from memory, mind you) — >The trouble with Taleb isn't that he's an asshole—he is an asshole. The trouble with Taleb is that he is right. Love that!