Status Updates From The Art of War

Re-reading this, and just to note, the audiobook version I'm listening to (the 2004 Minford translation) has a laughably racist introduction. Man. It's just... so transparently limited in its worldview. It's really best to read this work from a more general human vantage point than getting mired in whatever hot take conservative Westerners want to give on Chinese culture, because the lessons themselves are universal.

It’s funny how blindingly obvious some of these are, but it’s cool to think that these basic tenets are an early science, still true 2500 years later. Like yeah I would say the 5 constant factors are pretty spot on