Do you remember when you let go of everything? Do you remember when you disconnected?
when i was in china for a year, i had this opportunity to volunteer teach english at this police academy... little class for a week, and so the academy was in the middle of nowhere with rice fields around it, and there was no internet or anything
i basicly just smoked weed the entire week, and then and taught english to the police cadets. they adored me, i was their favorite teacher, and at the end, my team won the most points out of all the teams becasue we wer ejust having so much fun..
it was great too becasue instead of being like leader of the class and telling them all what to do, i just appointed a leader and told him what to tell them to do. i picked a really smart and competent leader, and so it worked out really well, and made my job so easy. all the other volunteer teachers were college students, and my team beat them all
those were good times 
When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak
masters, who rather plundered their subjects than ruled them, and gave
them more cause for disunion than for union, so that the country was full
of robbery, quarrels, and every kind of violence; and so, wishing to bring
back peace and obedience to authority, he considered it necessary to give
it a good governor. Thereupon he promoted Messer Ramiro d'Orco [de
Lorqua], a swift and cruel man, to whom he gave the fullest power. This
man in a short time restored peace and unity with the greatest success.
Afterwards the duke considered that it was not advisable to confer such
excessive authority, for he had no doubt but that he would become odious,
so he set up a court of judgment in the country, under a most excellent
president, wherein all cities had their advocates. And because he knew
that the past severity had caused some hatred against himself, so, to
clear himself in the minds of the people, and gain them entirely to
himself, he desired to show that, if any cruelty had been practiced, it
had not originated with him, but in the natural sternness of the minister.
Under this pretense he took Ramiro, and one morning caused him to be
executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block and a bloody
knife at his side. The barbarity of this spectacle caused the people to be
at once satisfied and dismayed.
- Machiavelli, The Prince
It's always a good move to appoint a second in command.
When I was about 16. I'm not a sociopath but I'm a social Darwinist, Machiavellian and callous bastard.
I feel empathy but I resist acting on it to get ahead. As opposed to socios, who don't feel it but try to act as if they do. I became this way when I attended a really competitive school where students were pitted against each another on an island in Japan and forced to fight to the death.