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Note-taking Lessons From America’s Greatest Biographer
Jillian Hess • Note-taking Lessons From America’s Greatest Biographer
Lessons from Robert Caro, famous biographer of Lyndon Johnson
Quote from CS Lewis from Packy McCormick’s Election Day newsletter entitled, “Read More Books.”
I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.
The half life of knowledge is the ... See more
“Enchantment” thread is interesting, I’ve saved an article recently about enchantment and much of the thesis was that attention = enchantment. Play = attention, and a specific type of it.
But there’s a subtler idea in PG’s argument—that a certain kind of thinking is only possible through writing. He doesn’t say specifically what kind of thinking that is, but I can take an educated guess: When you turn the vast, interconnected network of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in your mind into a line of words, you find sequence, order, and st... See more
Writing as a Way of Thinking
Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation
open.spotify.comBattle of Spartans vs. Thebans at Lutra
Theban commander Pamanund put his best men 50 lines deep up against Spartans 12 lines deep and took away from the rest of his army, where he positioned the weak side into diagonal lines shifting away from the enemy, like a sledgehammer to take out irreplaceable Spartan fighters. Breaks the rules of Greek warfare of the time and takes down an unbeatable army.
This was a big inspiration of Philip and later Alexander’s army configuration that involved 6-7 ft spears and tightly packed men that was outrageously successful for the unbeatable Macedonian army
I think it’s interesting how he approached a battles and the two armies as simply two immovable objects meeting each other. The stronger immovable object wins, so he brought a literal sledgehammer made of men to the battle. And the way to beat this, or the strategy of a battle, would involve re-placing the pieces of the army that would be met by these immovable objects and creating velocity elsewhere. A lot can be learned from the reframing of things in this way. An army isn’t an army, it’s a tool. Units of energy or productivity or projects delivered aren’t only what they may seem to be, they are also tools that can be recontextualized in the terms of whatever “battle” is being fought in the moment.
Philip the 2nd was a “Warrior Diplomat Fixer”
If a city couldn’t be conquered with force or diplomacy, it could be conquered with gold and sly infiltration of the city
Equal parts diplomat, warrior, and opportunist
Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle
He was a “philosopher king,” but one with a very high body count. Begs the question whether a utopic, idealistic and enlightened society is worthwhile if you kill 50 million people to achieve it?