"Taleb's Skin In The Game is required reading. If you want to get anywhere in modern life and understand how modern systems work, then Skin In The Ga… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The enemy of market system isn't some pot-smoking hirsute communistic hippie, but a suit wearing banker or Federal Reserve employee.

Let us call Mithridatization the result of an exposure to a small dose of a substance that, over time, makes one immune to additional, larger quantities of it. It is the sort of approach used in vaccination and allergy medicine. It is not quite antifragility, still at the more modest level of robustness, but we are on our way. And we already have a hint that perhaps being deprived of poison makes us fragile and that the road to robustification starts with a modicum of harm.

Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bullshit vendor.