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I'm stealing this word, Chris! ~CHAOrdic

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This is awesome. Thank you for sharing your principle stack. Its kind of liberating to establish ground rules by which everything is evaluated.

I have two sets of 1-2-3's. One is my "value stack" - 1) Family 2) Truth 3) Prosperity and the second is my action stack: 1) Speaking, 2) Writing and Coding. It took a bit to find it, and they may change. But the most liberating feeling once you got it down!

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Goes along with Jocko Willink's Discipline = Freedom. If you stay disciplined to your principles, making decisions are easy and you don't stress over them

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Cool, thank you for sharing. Hadn't heard of Jocko. Will check it out.

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A great short video on the concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbQh1ZPG5pc

super motivational

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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Saving this to read again later.

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The concept of creative principles is interesting to me. I’m sure there are many different ways people think about their own creative principles. There’s definitely a theme of know thyself with all this. Would be interested to read your thoughts on the last past: how does a creative process go from simple to complex over time and why

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what do you mean by "last past"? my last post?

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Oh typo, meant last part, last part of this piece

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I think creativity is fractal. You're always going to keep exploring if you find it interesting. Looking at past artists, they all have "periods". Picasso started with realism, then went to his blue period, rose period, cubism. He didn't plan on evolving to cubism, it emerged out of following his interests.

This essay touches on this idea. I think everything can be broken down and recombined. As this happens, complexity emerges.

https://chr.iswong.com/essays/the-dance-of-the-bees/

I noticed the idea of "Know Thyself," has come from almost every civilization

https://twitter.com/chr_iswong/status/1441779594915364867

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"Creativity is chaos - there’s no blueprint, no recipe."

This is interesting wording because I've been thinking a lot about how I think of creativity as the opposite, not chaos. 👀

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How would you describe creativity?

What I mean by chaos is that it's not planned. There's no checklist and you don't know what the final result will look like. You need to surrender to what happens and be ok with not having control.

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definitely! I need to read it a few more times first though....

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Chaordic exactly mirrors what Stephen Wolfram has proven to be true in physics. Mandelbrot sets are an example and Wolfram shows many others. The meaning of life may come down to what Wolfram calls “computational irreducibility”. I think you’d be very interested in his thought.

Great post!

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I've read and reread Dee Hock's book One from Many several times over the years. Some of the anecdotes describe perfectly the team and work experience I've always wanted and still look for. I appreciate your twist on the idea as you apply it to your life.

Also brings me back to the idea I come back to often: when you get to the paradox you're at a deep truth.

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