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Indeed. Maybe start with Rationality is Systematized Winning. Giving a few examples of people failing at rationality is not an effective criticism of rationality.
Taleb's books are interesting and he makes quite a few good points but the man has a lot of flaws. Eric Falkenstein sums up the case against him quite well.
I maintain that, of all the paradigm-altering and life-improving concepts I've gained from the sequences, the one derived from that post was the most important.
Literally nothing else we do here makes sense without it.
And I'm voting this up, for the same reasons.