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DescriptionBe Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs 1) by Venkatesh Rao English | EPUB | ASIN: B00F8JTYH8 15 September 2013 | Ribbonfarm, Inc. 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. Sharing Widget |