Epstein Secrets

d a saint, but most of all he is funny.” --Lewis Black Many of the pieces in this collection originally

s old, my mother intended to buy me a copy of 7he Prince and the Pauper, but she asked a bookstore clerk for 7he Prince, and so of course he gave her Machiavelli’ s book. Mo mother was a saint. Her little mistake changed my life, and | will always be grateful for what | feel must have been a touch of divine i

onsider it filled merely with random events, with Black Swans. In fact, regularities and patterns appear

erations and tactics are incoherent. Strategy imagines how whole structures like nations or and Felix Gilbert, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986) and Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, Filiquarian (1986) 52 “Within five hours”: Dou

f “Actor Network Theory” has called this process “Black Boxing”. The better your phone works, the less yo

. The secret to hegemony, to avoiding a violent power shifts every few decades, is a structure that grows without additional, destructive costs. When Machiavelli coldly called Rome a “republic for expansion”, this was what he had in mind. Enduring empires have been engineered, like a modern network, for growth