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    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
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    • Young Person's Guide
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Lichtenbergianism

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Lichtenbergianism
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
May 28, 2025

Enlarging an image for a hand-painted poster, part 2

May 28, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Enlarging an image for a hand-painted poster, part 2

In which I show you the rest of the process to enlarge an image for a poster by hand…

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Fonts, Strategies, Materials, Design
Steal from the Best
May 26, 2025

Enlarging an image for a hand-painted poster, part 1

May 26, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Enlarging an image for a hand-painted poster, part 1

In which I give you a handy step-by-step to printing out a large graphic design onto letter-size paper…

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Design, Fonts, Materials, Strategies
Steal from the Best
March 09, 2023

Advice for the new blogger

March 09, 2023/ Dale Lyles
Advice for the new blogger

In which I proffer advice to someone who wanted to start blogging and therefore asked how bloggers came up with stuff to write…

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Writing, Strategies
Make The Thing That Is Not, Audience
March 16, 2022

WASTE BOOK retrospection

March 16, 2022/ Dale Lyles
WASTE BOOK retrospection

In which I demonstrate how I review a spent WASTE BOOK…

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March 16, 2022/ Dale Lyles/ 1 Comment
Lichtenbergianism, Strategies
Waste Books
November 22, 2021

A Challenge: Find a problem for this solution

November 22, 2021/ Dale Lyles
A Challenge: Find a problem for this solution

In which I set up a challenge for myself, and also remind you to buy my stuff…

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Unsilent Night, Wastings, Strategies
Abortive Attempts, Make The Thing That Is Not
October 13, 2021

A lesson in STEALING FROM THE BEST, part 2

October 13, 2021/ Dale Lyles
A lesson in STEALING FROM THE BEST, part 2

In which I continue our lesson on STEALING FROM THE BEST by showing you mine…

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Creative Spirit, Strategies
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
October 04, 2021

The ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle in database design

October 04, 2021/ Dale Lyles
The ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle in database design

In which I demonstrate the ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle using our art collection and a database in FileMaker Pro…

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Strategies, Artists
Abortive Attempts
January 29, 2021

Fun Friday Resources

January 29, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I link to two essays about breakthroughs and productivity and am not even sorry…

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Creative Spirit, Keep going, Resources, Strategies
Ritual
January 25, 2021

A system

January 25, 2021/ Dale Lyles
A system

In which I confess to finding a system purporting to make me more “productive” actually useful…

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...for Kids, Galaxy Project, Lichtenbergianism, Resources, Proposed Efforts, Strategies
Task Avoidance
November 23, 2020

Readers write

November 23, 2020/ Dale Lyles
Readers write

In which I share one of my favorite magazines and its Readers Write feature…

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Writing, Strategies
Abortive Attempts
  • Next
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

Lichtenbergianism

Welcome to Lichtenbergianism, where you can find your creative energy through procrastination!

 
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