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The political philosophy behind how the smartest people in tech think about power

A short, free primer for founders, engineers, and investors who’ve hit the ceiling of what business thinking can give them — and want something more foundational.

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What’s Inside

Four lessons on the ideas that quietly shape everything

Why Leo Strauss argued political philosophy is the heart of all philosophy — and what that means for anyone building systems that govern people’s lives
The hidden technique ancient philosophers used to write for two audiences at once — and what it means for how you process any serious text
Heidegger’s one-word diagnosis of the tech industry that no founder has answered yet — directly relevant to AI, automation, and the choices being made right now
What connects Ilya Sutskever’s reading list to a 1927 German treatise — and why the people shaping AI keep returning to these thinkers
A guided reading of the first page of Plato’s Republic that changes how you see every text

Who This Is For

People who build things — and have started asking harder questions

Most of the students at the Millerman School work in tech, finance, or venture capital. They came because the frameworks they learned in business — strategy, optimization, incentive design — stopped being sufficient for the questions they were actually facing.

This primer is the starting point. 13 pages. No jargon. No prerequisites.

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