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"I must invent my own systems,
or else be enslaved by other men's."
-- William Blake !
> I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to *love the questions themselves* like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. *Live* the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
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Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
Maria Popova
**Obliquity**, a concept with a hat-tip to the book of the same name by John Kay, is a powerful strategy in problem-solving. As anyone with teenage children already knows, the most effective way to solve issues is rarely to tackle them head-on other than when they are trivial or as a refuge of last resort. Kay’s book contains examples of how complex and intractable problems were solved by working on a related issue. Working obliquely also means less public commitment to solving a particular problem and more time to watch for unintended consequences. It also gives more space for solutions to emerge rather than be manufactured or imposed.
Design principles for managing complexity
Cynefin.io
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