So Muhammad Ali, William the Conqueror, Philip II of Macedon, and Themistocles walk into a bar… That joke was not going to end well, but it gets you where I want you. What do these dead old white men have in common with a modern sports icon? Strategy....
Two events spurred the idea for a series of posts about strategy. The first was when I was talking with my wife about ways to win arguments with people. My favorite tactic is to lead my adversaries down a string of seemingly logical statements which are...
It is a peculiar time. For the past two hundred thousand years of our existence, all we’ve had to rely upon is constancy. The seasons turn; we sleep and rise; our loved ones are born, and then they die. Any perturbation of what is and always has been...
In my last post, I mentioned the Greek maxims Know yourself and Seek the mean in all things. Today, I’d like to touch on the latter and one of its implications. While I prefer the above translation, usually MHDEN AGAN is translated “Nothing in...
When Pausanias, the traveler and geographer, visited the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in the second century A.D., the inscriptions in the forecourt were nearly a thousand years old. They read ΜΗΔΕΝ ΑΓΑΝ and ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ: “Seek the mean in all things”...