This page is a redirect. The Obsidian source card at Digital Mind/Cards/10 Commandments for Con Artists.md is preserved for wikilink integrity, but the canonical brain content lives in the Power / Shadow / Deception reading cluster.
Why this is a redirect, not a page
The 10 Commandments for Con Artists sits in an existing brain cluster:
Robert Greene — Greene's person page, with cross-links to the con-artist tradition
The 10 commandments are best understood as the dark-side mirror of high-agency social skills (active listening, value-alignment, boundary discipline, status self-presentation) — which the brain captures under different framing in concepts/social-engineering and related pages.
What was on the Obsidian source (preserved for completeness)
The 10 rules (attributed to Victor Lustig):
Be a patient listener
Never look bored
Wait for the other person to reveal political opinions, then agree
Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones
Hint at sex talk, but don't follow it up unless they show strong interest
Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown
Never pry into a person's personal circumstances
Never boast — let your importance be quietly obvious
Never be untidy
Never get drunk
The dark-side mirror: the same skills, applied with manipulation intent, become the con artist's tools. The same skills, applied with serve-intent, are what high-status social operators do naturally.
Cross-references
Wikilinks extracted from source: Victor Lustig (up — the originator of the list), Deception (jump)
People: Victor Lustig is not yet a people/ page in the brain; this is the seed.
Source
Obsidian card: Digital Mind/Cards/10 Commandments for Con Artists.md
Originally attributed to Victor Lustig — Pierre-valley prison notebook tradition; the list is widely reproduced in social-engineering literature without a single canonical source
Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.