Excerpt:  Strategy & Physics

Strategy and physics go back a long way.  The development of homo sapiens, with their extraordinary brains, included a heightened curiosity about natural phenomena, feeding their survival instincts.  Humans wanted to know why inert objects acted the way they did, wanted to understand cause and effect, and wanted to use that knowledge to gain advantages in life.  From Aristotle (if not earlier) through Descartes and Newton, and on to the twentieth century greats such as Einstein and Heisenberg, the growth of physics understanding has been central to human life.  It’s not much of an extrapolation to claim that the more one knows about physics, the greater the survival advantage a person can attain, and thus the better strategist one can become...