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Make Your Own Rules - C C - Feb 20, 2018
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/02/15/make-your-own-rules/
EXCERPT: We seem to be in the middle of a renaissance of rules for life. Not since [...] has there been such a peak of interest in such rules. Then, as now, we were going through a period of deep global changes, and everybody was very anxious because nobody knew what the new rules for the new normal were. The proximal trigger of this current wave is I think, Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules, as well as the late John Perry Barlow’s 25 principles, which have both been doing the rounds. But the root cause is growing market demand for anomie-busting.
Well of course if there’s a gold rush of this sort on, I have to sell pickaxes. And my pickaxe is a DIY template for making your own set of life rules. Here’s an in-progress snapshot of the pickaxe in action in my own notebook (cleaned-up version with readable annotations key further down, but I wanted to share the working version, which includes several technical mistakes). My model may be a bit hard to grok if you haven’t been reading me for a few years, but the good news is, it’s color-by-numbers easy to use. And all it takes is pen and paper....
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RE: Make Your Own Rules - Syne - Feb 21, 2018
Except personal rules don't handle the spate of societal rule break-downs. Like the sexual revolution leading to vague rules of conduct that can tacitly condone inappropriate sexual behavior through discomfort with judging others.