"The lessons you can learn from them are applicable far beyond the fields the books are technically about." The 'Art of War' is about winning in a zero sum gam

"The lessons you can learn from them are applicable far beyond the fields the books are technically about." The 'Art of War' is about winning in a zero sum game. For most of history, that's the only way wealth could be created, i.e. 'taken'. The Valley in particular, is a testament to the opposite - that value can be created out of thin air, that we can 'grow the pie a lot, and just take a small slice as profit and everyone wins'. The 'Art of War' is therefore a bad business book for so many reasons - it presupposes that the only way you can win, is by destroying others. Surely, in some markets/situations it may be like that, but overall, it's antithetical to the premise of innovation. Gates was somewhat like that Jobs a little less. The 'new gen' are not really like that so much. I think Zuck & co. are highly competitive, but not conquerors.