Us freeing ourselves from kings only to bring them back several hundred years later would be the appropriate conclusion given our founders' obsession with ancient Rome

An excess of generosity is a swift path to a Prince's ruin, warns Machavelli; this holds true, even online.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier feels a little too on the nose these days. It’s all about Nazis embedded within the US government taking control of the US to take revenge on people they don't like. Their goal is a totalitarian terror state controlled by advanced technology.

Look at that: another Substack post!

The blissful experience of simply just linking to your article and having it work, Like Things Once Were.

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Back from the holidays with more MACHIAVELLI IN SPACE, this time featuring why mercenaries (and those who larp as them, online) will always betray you.

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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

How Machiavelli's class analysis maps perfectly onto online communities - and why the commons have more power than ever in the digital age. New Virtual Prince essay out now:

Started a Substack exploring how Machiavelli's 'The Prince' applies to online communities and virtual leadership. From Discord servers to remote teams to MMO guilds, turns out 16th century political theory has some relevant insights.

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trying to post about the substack on the hellsite and bsky simultaneously just underlines how much musk fucking broke twitter and it sucks now, praise be for article link previews actually working on here / enjoying this basic-ass functionality we used to take for granted.

Started a Substack exploring how Machiavelli's 'The Prince' applies to online communities and virtual leadership. From Discord servers to remote teams to MMO guilds, turns out 16th century political theory has some relevant insights.

themittani.substack.com