I spend a lot of time, perhaps too much, thinking about strategy and tactics. Learning them is most critical advantage as we descend into an age of chaotic multipolarity. It will set you ahead of the slopulists, vibe thinkers, and toxic postivity gurus. Learn Strategy is a series in where I go into timeless strategy and tactics fundamentals. And how you can apply it as we descend into a chaotic world. Tactical elevates a person toward mastering the game Link in comments.

"There can be few fields where history counts for so little as in the world of finance" What fuels bubbles: 1. Financial memory is brief. Financial disaster is often quickly forgotten. Speculation returns in a new youthful self-confident generation who invents it. 2. Money = genius. Free marketers believe that the more income or assets you have, or if your associated with? You must be unusually gifted or intelligent. Reality is these people are living NPCs. Making them the least worst choice for the public or investors. Whenever people see these guys moving massive bags, they automatically assume their IQ must be as huge as their bank account.

Robert Greene and I read the same books. The fundamentals don't change over centuries. How they expressed do. I'm going at 1/10 of what I know. The harder concepts are abstract, but require practice of fundamentals.

Common occupations among terrorists and radicals: 21st Century: - artists - engineers - criminals - unemployed 19th and 20th century: - lawyers - teachers - educated middle class - unemployed - criminals Its the educated and ambitious whose advancement has been blocked.

Iran's regional aggressiveness is more a buffer system to buy strategic depth. Big difference. Not security architecture like the US. Who inserts itself in the Middle East to project power and secure oil. Soviets and UK did too. Last one sponsored Mossadehs overthrow with the US in 1953.