The Kill Line: Strategy in an Age of Thresholds: DeMarco Banter

Modern strategy is increasingly about thresholds rather than targets. In Chinese video-game culture, the kill line refers to a simple mechanic: the point at which a character’s remaining health is so low that any additional hit—no matter how small—results in elimination. Above the line, mistakes are survivable. Below it, they are terminal. Recovery is no longer possible. …

A Simple Man’s Map To The Stoic Path—Neo-DeMarconian Banter

A while back we started a series on schools of philosophy and we began with the Praxium or the Jedi School. Today we ponder the Stoic School. For the past several years now I have been studying The Stoics.  I first became interested from listening to podcasts by Tim Ferriss and reading biographies of George …

The Lycaeum the Aristotelian School of Leadership–Neo DeMarcoian Thought

We had a post a few months back pondering what Aristotle teaches us about leadership, but at the same time we have been pondering ancient schools of leadership—we’ve pondered Plato’s Academy, The Jedi Praxium, and today we will ponder Aristotle’s Lyceum.   HISTORY The Lycaeum was a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god"). …