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    • 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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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/
November 19, 2025

A teachable moment

November 19, 2025/ Dale Lyles
A teachable moment

In which a young person’s distress turns into a triumph…

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November 19, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Unsilent Night
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
November 18, 2025

What, never? (Hardly ever...)

November 18, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What, never? (Hardly ever...)

In which I muse about work I will never accomplish…

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November 18, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Cecil Project, Composing, Day in the Moonlight, Seven Dreams, Ten Little Waltzes, William Blake's Inn
Abandonment
November 12, 2025

What if you're actually not any good at this?

November 12, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What if you're actually not any good at this?

In which I give you a gentle scolding for believing that you’re not good enough to Make the Thing That Is Not…

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November 12, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
November 10, 2025

Little Waltz No. 10: a look at process

November 10, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Little Waltz No. 10: a look at process

In which I drag out the misshapen Little Waltz No. 10 “Finale” and exhibit its pitiful shortcomings for the world to see… with lessons…

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November 10, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, King of Hearts Fallacy
November 05, 2025

Back to the Little Waltzes

November 05, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Back to the Little Waltzes

In which I return to the problem of the Finale of Ten Little Waltzes…

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November 05, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
November 03, 2025

When all else fails...

November 03, 2025/ Dale Lyles
When all else fails...

In which I share an antique productivity hack that kept me sane for many years…

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November 03, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Keep going, Materials, Personal, Strategies
Task Avoidance, Ritual
October 29, 2025

A blast from the past...

October 29, 2025/ Dale Lyles
A blast from the past...

In which I share one of my earliest compositions, an opening number for a bawdy show originally from the darkest corners of 70s off-off-Broadway…

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October 29, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Theatre
October 27, 2025

Man, if this isn't a metaphor...

October 27, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Man, if this isn't a metaphor...

In which I return to Default World with a simple project…

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October 27, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Task Avoidance, Successive Approximation
October 15, 2025

I am attending the shenanigans

October 15, 2025/ Dale Lyles
I am attending the shenanigans

In which I give you a quick update on “Ten Little Waltzes” before scurrying off to camp with the hippies…

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October 15, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Ten Little Waltzes, Burning
Abandonment
October 13, 2025

Pasta Milano with Shrimp, with a side of GESTALT

October 13, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Pasta Milano with Shrimp, with a side of GESTALT

In which I use an old recipe to illustrate how the Precepts of Lichtenbergianism are useful in areas that are not fine arts related…

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October 13, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ 2 Comments
Cooking
Gestalt, Successive Approximation
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  • 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/

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