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    • 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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  • What?/
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    • 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/
April 25, 2022

Do I care that the universe doesn't care?

April 25, 2022/ Dale Lyles
Do I care that the universe doesn't care?

In which I continue my musings on an uncaring universe…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
Audience, Make The Thing That Is Not
April 20, 2022

Mozart, van Gogh, and me

April 20, 2022/ Dale Lyles
Mozart, van Gogh, and me

In which I whine about having given the universe an ultimatum…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
Audience, Make The Thing That Is Not
April 11, 2022

A little Stoicism to help you through the wreckage

April 11, 2022/ Dale Lyles
A little Stoicism to help you through the wreckage

In which I share Marcus Aurelius’s meditations on Lichtenbergianism…

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Creative Spirit, Guest Lichtenbergian
February 23, 2022

Back to basics: ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

February 23, 2022/ Dale Lyles
Back to basics: ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

In which I give you a refresher course in ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS while coining a new technical term: shinyperfect…

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February 23, 2022/ Dale Lyles/ 1 Comment
Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
Abortive Attempts, shinyperfect
January 19, 2022

100 the hard way

January 19, 2022/ Dale Lyles
100 the hard way

In which I hook you up with several “do a thing for 100 days” projects, even though I have no intention to do anything of the kind myself…

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Creative Spirit, Keep going
Make The Thing That Is Not, Abortive Attempts
January 05, 2022

When to quit: ABANDONMENT

January 05, 2022/ Dale Lyles
When to quit: ABANDONMENT

In which I attempt to adapt a grid for knowing when to quit to our peculiar circumstances…

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Creative Spirit
Abandonment
December 31, 2021

Year-End Roundup

December 31, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Year-End Roundup

In which I give you a list of my favorite posts from this past year…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
December 15, 2021

Wasting art supplies 1

December 15, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Wasting art supplies 1

In which I share the results of my following my own advice re: wasting art supplies…

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Wastings, Creative Spirit
Abortive Attempts, Ritual
December 08, 2021

How to waste art supplies

December 08, 2021/ Dale Lyles
How to waste art supplies

In which I give explicit instructions — EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS — on how to waste art supplies productively…

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Artists, Creative Spirit, Materials
Abortive Attempts
December 02, 2021

Fear of beginning is not the only fear

December 02, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Fear of beginning is not the only fear

In which I begin an exploration of our justified fear of wasting our time and supplies…

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Creative Spirit
Abandonment
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  • 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

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