Be Slightly Evil Quotes

“So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“If you instinctively envision yourself in the future, at the peak of your life, you are a be somebody person. If you instinctively envision the impact you might have had, and are fuzzy on what you personally will be like, you are a do something type.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“truth is also about increasing moral minimalism. As you learn more, you should have less need for moral opinions. Or”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“Your terrain is the tortuous maze of truth-avoidance paths worn out by the “be somebody” types, and paved by the medal-awarding priests. Your mission is to tackle head-on, the truths that they work hard to avoid. Your own twists and turns are about avoiding or outmaneuvering those who want to deny truths and defend obvious falsehoods.”
― Venkatesh Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“Your mission is to tackle head-on, the truths that they work hard to avoid. Your own twists and turns are about avoiding or outmaneuvering those who want to deny truths and defend obvious falsehoods.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“if you don’t know who the sucker is, it is probably you).”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“The reason this works is that under normal circumstances, employers and employees alike conspire to maintain the fiction that a corporation is a set of defined, rational roles that are filled by people with acceptable levels of skill, executing rational policies and procedures that are sufficient to get things done and turn a profit. In practice, nothing would ever get done if everybody did this. The rules aren’t a minimum definition of the profit-making business of a corporation. They are well below the minimum. Even disengaged minimum-effort types (“losers” in the Gervais Principle‡‡ sense) do more than this under normal circumstances.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“To be slightly evil is to embrace life.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“So endgames are naturally messy.

They may not be very dynamic, but when an active war is shutting down, there is still a lot of cleaning up to do. It may sound grim, but that's what it looks like. There are broken things everywhere, wounds and corpses, general messiness. Things collapsing due to zemblanity forces that have been set in motion but are too large to control.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths