The advisors
Twelve ways of reading the same situation.
Every advisor is built from what one person actually wrote — a doctrine, a manner, a move. Each profile below covers their thought, their main theses, their principal works, and the situations they read better than the others at the table.
Machiavelli1469–1527PowerFlorentine diplomat and political theoristRead the profile →
Marcus Aurelius121–180ControlRoman emperor and Stoic philosopherRead the profile →
Seneca4 BC–65TimeRoman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwrightRead the profile →
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658TimingSpanish Jesuit and master of worldly strategyRead the profile →
Sun Tzuc. 5th c. BCPositionChinese general and strategistRead the profile →
Adam Smith1723–1790IncentivesScottish moral philosopher and founder of economicsRead the profile →
Montaigne1533–1592DoubtFrench essayist and inventor of the essayRead the profile →
La Rochefoucauld1613–1680MotivesFrench moralist and master of the maximRead the profile →
Nietzsche1844–1900CourageGerman philosopher of courage and self-overcomingRead the profile →
Confucius551–479 BCDutyChinese teacher and philosopher of roles and dutyRead the profile →
Jane Austen1775–1817PeopleEnglish novelist and anatomist of social gamesRead the profile →
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790PragmatismAmerican printer, scientist, and negotiatorRead the profile →