“Better as a T-Shirt Rule”: don’t commit to permanence when there’s still #SuccessiveApproximation to be done. (p. 13) #TaskAvoidance

In Beethoven’s #WasteBooks we can see eight different beginnings to his Symphony No. 5. With each iteration, he listened and found that it was not quite right. (p. 69) #SuccessiveApproximation

"Didn't get it right the first time?
Nudge it,
adjust it,
tinker with it —
or do it again,
betterer.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"Closer and closer.
That's all you should worry about.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

Make it possible to update/upgrade the project. (p. 71) #SuccessiveApproximation

The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

With many a work of a celebrated man I would rather read what he has crossed out than what he has let stand. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.131 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation #Gestalt

In Beethoven’s #WasteBooks we can see eight different beginnings to his Symphony No. 5. With each iteration, he listened and found that it was not quite right. (p. 69) #SuccessiveApproximation

"Didn't get it right the first time?
Nudge it,
adjust it,
tinker with it —
or do it again,
betterer.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

Much of what you make is not going to be a final product. Rather, it’s an evolutionary dead end — paint over it, strike through it, use it for firewood. Then do it again. Right-er. (p. 58) #SuccessiveApproximation