thanks for this -- in antifagile he mentions how he reads 30-60 hours every week. assuming that is true, he must be reading hundreds of books a year.
He has all the f u money he needs, no day job, genuine curiosity, there is no need to doubt it. His intellectual curiosity is so refreshing when almost everybody reads books to signal something.
Other people read books to signal, but Talib has enough cloud to just say shit instead of signaling. Arguably, this is why he has the reputation of being a jerk or putting his foot in his mouth.
That link didn't work for me. This one did though:
indeed that's the correct one. I mistakenly copy pasted things from browser history without loading the page. sorry about that & thanks for correcting it