• Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
• As Lincoln said, you destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.
• Without enemies around us, we grow lazy.
• Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even the closest of friends can be transfor...

• Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.
• Solid reputation increases your presence and exaggerates your strengths without your having to spend much energy.
• Once it is solid, do not let yourself ...

Part of what it is to be ethically precious, to be an individual, is to have a face and a body in which individuality is inscribed. 

Consider a thought experiment: try to imagine a circumstance where you feel as though you murdered a machine, in switching off an AI, will you feel the same w...