I continue to be impressed by Taleb, but I will read the linked blog article. I don't read him for the financial advice per se so much as for enjoyably-written

I continue to be impressed by Taleb, but I will read the linked blog article. I don't read him for the financial advice per se so much as for enjoyably-written reminders to avoid the fundamental attribution error and pay attention to the expected value as well as the extremes when weighing probabilistic outcomes. I wouldn't characterize him as negative—he strikes me as about as positive as you can get with an acute awareness of human ignorance as an incurable situation that leads to a great deal of needless suffering. A lot of the anti-Taleb angst seems to derive from him not delivering facts in a sufficiently rigorous and drab manner, but I don't think there's anything wrong with entertaining non-fiction.