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kleinbl00 · 2112 days ago · link · · parent · post: The sacred cows of psychology turn out to be straw men
My financial planner advised both me and my wife to come up with - and popularize - a unit of measure or industry-related term and apply our names to it. Within industry, being able to describe something in terms of one's name - "His pomposity is at least 4 kleinbl00s" - gives you professional marketing opportunities. It's possible that Taleb knew this and decided that there was no possible way he could assign his name to something and not be laughed out of academia so instead he coined other terminology to give himself a 2nd-degree association. I would say Carlton Sheets is at least a Taleb and a half away from originality. Tim Ferris? two or three Talebs.