Battlefield: The Boardroom, The Living Room, The Mind. As I delved into the Word, I also found myself drawn to another ancient text: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Now, I know what you might be thinking – a book about military strategy? How does that relate to navigating toxic relationships or dealing with manipulative people? More than you might think, actually.
https://michaeltheanon.blogspot.com/2025/05/battlefield-boardroom-living-room-mind.html
Random continuation of the analogy between SunTzu's Stategics and software development, as told by ChatGPT o1
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Shape the battlefield early
Choose tooling that enforces invariants.
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This means everything from consistent style to using compilers that hate you. Eventually you will learn to like them, and grow as a person
Speaking of Sun Tzu, debugging is a lot like fighting a battle against an enemy.
ChatGPT o1:
"Right? — once you start looking, The Art of War reads like a debugging manual written in Classical Chinese.
If the enemy is taking his ease, harass him.
Tactic: Stress tests and fuzzers. A bug that naps at normal load often panics when you turn the data hose to 11."
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I've noticed parallels between the Art of War and debugging computer programs before. There are many other pearls of wisdom in there
Fresh flea market finds. This time I took a trip to Riihimäki, to two big flea markets, #femmatori and #riihimäenkellari. Was totally blown away by the amount & variety of LPs. Short walk from the train station. Warmly recommended! The black cd is Fred Frith.
#fleamarket #cds #vinyl #books #literature #finderskeepersrecords #charlesbaudelaire #fleursdumal #suntzu #artofwar #laurieanderson #jeanlucponty #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #undergroundmusic @music
2️⃣ Strength Is Not Just Fighting
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
People think strength means fighting back. But what if fighting only makes the enemy stronger? Sometimes, the real power is in choosing when to engage and when to walk away. (2/20) #PowerOfPeace #StrategicThinking #20postchallenge #SunTzu #ArtOfWar #bookstodon
@democratsabroad
🥥 "Stop posting internet memes quoting things I never said, or I'll kill you." --Sun Tsu, The Art of War 🥥
#Quotations #SunTsu #ArtofWar ##TuckersBalls
Part III - Over the next 3 years, with the help of the Red Cross, Nassy was provided with art supplies, allowing him to create more than 200 paintings + drawings that would depict life in the camps.
Liberated in 1945, Nassy passed away in 1976
#josefnassy #art #artist #holocaustsurvivor #wwii #wwiiart #blackhistorymonth #artworld #afrojewish #holocaust #holocaustart #blackartist #internmentcamp #concentrationcamp #artofwar #africanamericanart #africanamerican #africanamericanhistory
#AnticsPolitics #WeaponizedChuckleheads
#WeaponizedAntiCringe #HowSurkovWon
#WarOnReality #PeterPomerantsevWasRight
#ArtOfWar ::: #FWakeSurkovianChess
#FrontPageReddit #FWake20250126
Doesn't everyone remember all the mocking, the mocking of "16D" chess? Because Putin keeps winning since 2013. #NATOlost
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1iaab2o/alex_buretz_cartoon/
'Art of War' to combat Project 2025! Dems eye new strategy from ‘48 Laws of Power' scholar - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyVwmxaB5k&ab_channel=MSNBC
#AriMelber #TheBeat #MSNBC #ArtOfWar #48LawsOfPower #Politics #RobertGreene #Project2025 #BlackMastodon #BlackThreads #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse
The Art of Proxy Wars
#BaaghiTV #Opinions #ArtOfWar #ProxyWar #International #Politics #ProxyWarfare #TheArtOfWar #SunTzu #WarDisplacement #BrianHoldenReid #DefenseBudgets #WarOnTerror #NATO @yasmeenali62
In strange Kickstarter stretch goals I wasn’t paying attention to, I now have a copy of The Art of War annotated by a Mechwarrior.
What if the public relations, marketing, advertising, selling, promotion industry got so good at convincing people that bad services, bad products, bad was good. What if the skill of convincing people to believe junk food was good food became so gifted, the art so appealing, that people became bloated, obese, ignorant, and believed falsehoods about anything. A selling technique so powerful, it impacted every industry, every product.
#SellAlls /\
Is it just me, or are all the "what's the #Ukraine️ strategy in attacking inside #Russia" articles and posts I'm seeing.... dumb.
It's really basic strategy to attack where the enemy is weak. You get in behind them if you can, fuck up their supply lines and other infrastructure... what's the mystery?
On top of all that, it makes #Putin look like a putz. Win win!
@goblin
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Yes, absolutely.
But not only in China. Old beliefs & #traditions can survive centuries.
Maybe one reason for successful of religions is if they can adopt the holy places & festivities of their predecessors.
The #CCP is in some parts deeply connected to the Chinese tradition while other parts are fighting it.
#Sunzi's #ArtofWar was studied by the People's Liberation Army
In the VII. five-year plan of 1986 the CCP brought back #confucianism & #传统文化 traditional #culture
Study Business they said. It will be fun they said. You'll win friends and influence people they said.
In seriousness, I visited an Office Max that was going out of business and this was a sad, lingering Quick Study guide on a rack near the entrance next to an O-chem and Spanish 101 guide.
We were there because one of my kids wanted me to tag along while they grabbed track and carbon paper because they actually own a dot matrix. It is a long story. I will spare you.
But back to the study guide... Does anyone remember the Chartered Accountant pirates / Accountant Shanty at the beginning of The Meaning of Life? It's what I thought of, but with Asian rather than European bankers at the helm.
If the orders are unclear, the fault lies with the general. If the orders are clear but not followed, the fault lies with the commanding officers.
::Sun Tzu orders the execution of the emperor’s favorite concubines::
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"
Another sunday to spend a reading dose!
This time with Chinese wisdom: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and Lao Tse's "Tao Te King".
#Books #BooksWorthReading #LaoTse #SunTzu #ArtOfWar #TaoTeKing #China #Wisdom #Knowledge
