Writing a Natural Law Manual on the Formation of Citizen-Soldiers | Principal @Statecraft_X, Vice President @natlawinstitute
Aug 17 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
Today I spoke at @PalestraSociety Forum in El Salvador.
The title of my talk?
"What We Leave Behind: Values, Constraints, and the Legacy of Civilizations"
Below are my slides and the thoughts I shared alongside them 🧵
Every civilization leaves traces.
Some constructed pyramids that still dominate skylines, others carved philosophies into language, or made powerful art. Some left ruins we puzzle over, others left almost nothing at all.
What remains is not chance: it reflects what a people valued, the constraints they endured, and the strategies they chose for survival.
Legacy then is simply the record of values made durable.
Jun 20, 2020 • 43 tweets • 4 min read
THE INDEXING STRATEGY IN NETWORKED SYSTEMS
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1/ Power in the Information Age is directly impacted by, and channeled through, information flow (access, control, manufacturing, manipulation, etc).
2/ In order to consistently gain access to good (useful) information, one has to do at least one, though usually more, of the following:
