Taleb has to be one of the most narcissistic people in the world.

I remember reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli, and there's a sentence in one of the chapters where says something like "no one could have predicted to 2007 housing crash (except Nassim Taleb)." Well, turns out that Dobelli is a "protege" of Taleb, and I can just see Taleb editing this manuscript and cajoling Dobelli into adding the parenthetical.

As such, I break out in hives whenever Taleb's name comes up. Even if he's right some of the time, I still can't listen to a thing he says.