Comment by ghostzilla

3 days ago

That's interesting, it hasn't occurred to me to check his games. That said, I remember reading that Machiaveli was once given a territory to govern and he was terrible at it, despite The Prince. It may be a thing about teachers vs doers.

THAT said, there is a lot of intersting things one can learn from John Carmack, so there's an exception to every rule.

>That said, I remember reading that Machiaveli was once given a territory to govern and he was terrible at it, despite The Prince.

this is a great articulation of what i'm trying to say thanks