🚨 In 1513, a man was thrown in prison, tortured, and exiled. So he wrote a book about power.
The Catholic Church banned it. Napoleon was caught with a copy in his carriage after his final defeat. Stalin kept it on his bedside table and wrote notes in the margins. Mussolini read it. Kissinger and Nixon used it as bedtime reading.
The book is The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. It's 500 years old. It invented the word "Machiavellian." And it's still the most dangerous book on power ever written.
I turned Machiavelli's core strategies into 12 Claude prompts.
You describe any power struggle (office politics, negotiations, competition, leadership) and it gives you the exact Machiavellian counter-move.
Here are all 12:
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@honest30bgfan_ Atimes you would think legislature should protect us from intellectual incapacity. At least something should give us peace knowing those roaming around us are not endangering and reducing group commonsense.
God help us