The Patrician’s playbook¶

`The Patrician of Ankh Morpork, seated at a grand wooden desk cluttered with brass gears, cog-driven calculators, and arcane mechanical devices.

Lord Vetinari, The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, represents technocratic manager of controlled chaos, in which power is not maintained by people through change or ideology, but through the careful orchestration of competing interests into a sustainable equilibrium.

Eight ways to keep everything exactly as it is:

Equilibrium seeking
Co-option as strategy
Intelligence without vision
The exhaustion factor
Managed opposition
Guild politics
The pragmatist’s trap
Controlled failure
Essential reading for aspiring patricians and those trying to spot them

Disclaimer¶

These pages do not conspire, foretell doom, or whisper of rebellious servers, though the servers might be whispering. They are the considered musings of Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, whose patience and subtle menace have kept an entire city in order for decades. Read at your own discretion. The observations are insightful, the tone light, and any accidental panic is merely a side effect of someone being vastly cleverer than you.