It’s not that he’s a dick, but he just seems to rename a lot of pretty standard psychology and economic phenomena with his own terminology, then speaks as though he was the first one to think of it. Giving the illusion that he’s some sort of lone genius rather than someone who can synthesize a lot of information very well ingratiates himself to a certain kind of asshole who are perfectly happy to talk condescendingly to you while parroting Taleb’s opinions exactly.