I have a mania for systems, never having given up the childish hope that there's a right way to live and it can be codified and broadly applied. This is not how things appear to be, but appearances can be deceptive, and these things come in waves. On some scales there's chaos, and then you pull back or draw closer and order resolves itself. Further back, closer in, chaos returns, alternating in and out.
My own system broke down either a few weeks or months ago, depending on how the story (fiction) is told, although I didn't really have one to begin with. It was a set of external routines that made little sense on their own, and thus were ready to collapse the moment the external influences (my job) were removed. Left to my own devices I've never stopped being a wayward child, full of hope.
This next stage of the experiment is one that teases out the utility of slack, the need for inefficiency at all points of the system so that the inevitable unexpected stresses can be met without any loss of function. Which means what? More time, energy, money and so on than you 'need'. Just enough is a state of permanent near crisis.
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Whenever I see the word "slack" I instantly think of the Church of Scientology. I don't know why, I guess it's just one of those things...
I like the random password generator on these things. They create words that are not words, but "word-like." This makes them easy to type, simple to generate, and difficult to predict. My password for today, for example, is "inving." If I post again, it will probably be something different...
The password for this one is "mershi". But I screwed up and got another one, this one if "rerefl."
Recuer. Proma. Sneltu. Beall. Subse. Sporg. erialt. Genat. Consu. Refet. Fulli. Near-words, the closest being "beall", but still non-words. Or... is this Finnish?
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