I’m so proud of myself. Last August I anticipated that an issue might arise in the schedule for Fall 2021. I set things up so that if the issue did crop up, I’d have an easy, elegant way to solve it.
This week I found out that the issue I had anticipated did, indeed, arise. And I now had everything set up to solve it.
The Dean’s Office is very impressed. There are several more things like these where I’m playing the long game. I’m calculating things so far in advance that I have several projects going on that will benefit the department five years from now. I also have a very long-term strategy aimed at making sure that the administration of the university system as a whole does what I need it to do in a very important issue that might crop up eventually. I can’t reveal the details because it will only work if my antagonists in this struggle are caught unawares.
N says he’ll buy me The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Machiavelli’s The Prince but I’m not sure they have much to teach me.
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Do you play chess? If not, you should pick it up.
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Curiously, I’m horrid at chess. My sister is a great chess player but I’m completely useless. I need humans to bring my plans to fruition. Wooden chess pieces don’t give the same satisfaction, and I get instantly bored.
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You may just need a special custom-made chess set where each chess piece has the face of one of your enemies.
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And they have to wriggle, resist and yell diversity slogans as I bump them off the board. 🙂
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