Art of War

31/05/2026

30/05/2026

3 Maxims on Political Strategy

"The three rules listed below are by no means exhaustive; they are merely the first leads to the understanding of a vast subject.

"In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principles, it is the more consistent one who wins.

"In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.

"When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side."

Ayn Rand
“The Anatomy of Compromise,”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 145

29/05/2026

You Will Need Allies

To change the world, you will need allies.

My account is designed to help you find people of character who are willing to fight spiritual battles alongside you.

All my writing and interacting online has a goal:

I want to identify a small band of worthy brothers and sisters with unique skills and knowledge—and then demonstrate to them that we need each other and can do great things together.

My content equips people how to do that.

You find allies for spiritual battle by finding people who (broadly) believe what you believe and who have character. (You cannot skip on character.)

Pay attention to what people say, to how they treat people, and to who they associate with.

Talk to people by phone and messages. Join or create group chats.

Share what is on your own heart.

Discover who cares about that and who doesn’t.

Attract a community of people who see what you see.

These are people willing to help you as you work toward your own goals—whether that be in career, in marriage and parenting, in learning skills, or in creating something.

You can only discover the ways other people will make your life better if you do the courageous thing:

Put yourself out there.

Then you will begin to see the value of connecting with other people more and more.

Connecting becomes a key part of your life.

When you become an important part of someone’s life, you have (by definition) already changed the world for that person in some small way.

Changes of this kind add up.

Use online tools to become a change in another person’s life.

You might be surprised what doors you are able to open.

27/05/2026

Your Social Circle As a High-Value Asset

Thoughts on blocking...

If you behave dishonestly or dishonorably around me, you’ll probably act that way toward my friends too.

And I can’t have that.

I don’t want someone to think you are allowed to treat them poorly and I approve of it or I don’t care about it.

I want you to believe that any person you meet through me is someone who will make your life better.

I want my social circle to become my most valuable professional asset.

My social circle needs to be completely composed of men and women of the highest character and emotional maturity, because I am helping to assemble an ideological/spiritual army.

That army needs to be an army of winners, not losers.

26/05/2026

Dale Partridge is a buffoon

25/05/2026

Facile Ground

(Notes on Sun Tzu 11:2-10)

You are on this kind of ground when you make minor points of criticism against your opponent, of the type that can be easily overlooked.

Spend little time here.

You do not have much to gain.

Don’t waste your effort fighting for a facile point.

24/05/2026

C.S. Lewis wrote:

In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it “Bulverism.”

Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father — who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third — “Oh you say that because you are a man.”

“At that moment,” E. Bulver assures us, “there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument.

“Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error, and the world will be at your feet.

“Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall.”

That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century.