The 48 Laws of Power with Robert Greene
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
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The Different Mentalities of Power
The power is definitely a core human nature and people have written books about chimpanzees and how Machiavellian they are. I just try to tell people we live in a complex world where you have to know how to be social and political. Paul Graham is terrible at the political side of stuff, he admits that he hates it. He read the 48 laws of power but he says he just hated it. It was why he couldn't be in academia. And so what does he do? Well his hack is he depends on his wife. She's very sympathetic, very empathetic person and he lets her handle it all. So you cannot escape the social element. You need the 48 laws
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