The Best Way to Win Poker Is to Not Play Poker

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i wish she'd taken a wider lens then, viewing it like, strictly through tromp. Unfortunately, this introduction feels very hashtag resistance in a way that is not n age super well. The scale with which it became a known text took place over centuries. And so i think there was maybe an over temptation to apply it to, like, who is in power when the translation was being written.

We learn the art of military strategy, deception, and fire from Michael Nylan's 2020 translation of this classic text. We start by going in-depth on the contemporary political references in Nylan's Introduction to this edition, and then we go blow-by-blow and nugget-by-inspirational-nugget through Master Sun's timeless wisdom.

Here's translator Michael Nylan writing about the book for LitHub: "The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It."

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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