Investor Naval Ravikant is considered a sage in Silicon Valley. Dilbert creator and tech investor Scott Adams calls him one of the smartest people he knows. Naval (he prefers the single name brand) recently did a Periscope where he took questions from viewers. The whole discussion is interesting, but readers of the Spy’s Guide series will find his discussion of Positive-Sum and Zero-Sum Games fascinating. He takes those concepts beyond the thinking and strategic points in A S

Dr. Jerry Smith is Vice-President of Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence at Cognizant. Recently, he wrote about using the concepts in A Spy's Guide To Thinking and A Spy's Guide To Strategy to build strategies. He graciously allowed a reprint here: ---------- "Really understanding strategy is a hard problem. One that requires itself a strategy. Amazon list over 200,000 books on strategy. Finding any book is easy. It’s a simple query executed in a text field of a web pag

Jordan Peterson has the #1 nonfiction book at Amazon for the fourth week in a row. As a clinical psychologist, he has insights into behavior, and he likes to call out silliness when he sees it. His book is called 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos. Peterson knows history. As a university professor, he knows modes of thinking change over time. “Framing” changes over time. What we do with the data from the world around us changes over time. In an interview last year, Peter