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Here are some of my thoughts on strategy vs tactics: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/books-strategy-tactics/


This is nice and I enjoyed reading your experiences, though this is wrong:

> Wisdom is possessing a beyond-expert vocabulary of effective tactics that will work in a given discipline at that time.

Wisdom is the ability to navigate ignorance. Wise people do not fail when they are ignorant, they proceed with humble caution until the unknowable challenges are behind them.

Let me guess, you’re an ESTJ? I know, it isn’t fair, your brain is optimized for literal perception, not to see the world as a framework of principles. Though you generate abstract principles from your experience, so you and the product of your efforts can be appreciated by those who value principles.

Strategy is knowing how to frame and manipulate the rules of “the game”. And tactics are specific applications for exploiting those rules.


I just wanted to let you know that the reason you're being downvoted is probably the perceived condescension in your use of the Myers Briggs test (which is effectively just a horoscope for pseudo-intellectuals).


Don’t sweat it. I know these idiots cannot see my amusing point.

The funny thing is …


This is what defines an intellectual from a pseudo intellectual:

One searches for curious truths, and another takes others’ word for it.

And yes, I have spotted fnords, and lived to tell about it.


> And yes, I have spotted , and lived to tell about it.

Was this supposed to make sense?




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