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Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs 1) by Venkatesh Rao

English | EPUB | ASIN: B00F8JTYH8

15 September 2013 | Ribbonfarm, Inc.

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Personal Development & Self-Help

CONTENTS

Preface
The Soul of Being Slightly Evil
How Deep is Be Slightly Evil?
Be Somebody or Do Something
Double-Talk and Chaos-Making
No Free Lunch Instincts
Personality Archetyping
Why Does Power Corrupt?
The Perils of Bitter Loserdom
The Unreasonable Man Effect
Shadowboxing with Evil Twins
Rousseau vs. Hobbes Redux
Preparing to Play
Status 101
Should You Show Your True Colors?
Small and Honest Moves
The First Day in Prison
Following the Rules
Observation
An Easy Way to Read People
Candor, Cursing and Clarity
On Cold-Blooded Listening
Orientation
Organizing the World’s Delusions
Status, Harmony and Conflict
Conflict Without Ego
The Basics of Negotiation
Decision
Indifference to Sunk Costs
Vindictiveness and Revenge
Action
On Petards
Crisis Non-Response
The Hierarchy of Deceptions
The Art of Damage Control
Disrupting an Adversary
On Annoying Others
Derailing the Data-Driven
Rebooting Conversations
Case Studies
The Game of Hallway Chicken
Door-Holding and Illegible Queues
Napping in the Trenches
Pistols, at Dawn
How to Interrupt
On Dodging Decisions
Inside the Tempo
Acknowledgements

Excerpt:
How Deep is Be Slightly Evil?

Is there more to Be Slightly Evil philosophy than just an adolescent attraction to being a bit of a bad-ass?

I picked the name mainly because it seemed like a good joke at Google’s expense. “Don’t Be Evil” smacks of a certain paternalistic hubris that even that well-intentioned behemoth of a company should be wary of. I believe that at that scale of immense power, self-policing is simply too dangerous, and only checks and balances constructed out of outside forces pursuing different ends can curb true evil.

But enough about the inspiration. What about Be Slightly Evil, the little baby antithesis at you-and-me scales? Yes, it is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but to me the phrase also stands for a few philosophical ideas, and keeping it constantly in front of me helps me remember those ideas.


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