Style Is Consistent Constraint
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Style Is Consistent Constraint
Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all. It’s not a life commitment, it’s just the way you do things. For now.
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus.
"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
A strategist is a stylist - and the ones that aren’t are the ones who gripe about nobody listening to their advice.
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One way of imposing a constraint is to follow a format.