Hunting The Muse

Rules Of Life

One thing that is interesting about my weblogging is that since my words are public, I find myself coming back to them more often... and also making sure that I feel like my words are at least somewhat defensible. What's really interesting is that I'm noticing that if I protest against something enough in this manner, it does start to eventually suggest something that I am in favor of. Something about the distilling it all goes through.

Anyway, I think I will periodically come up with Rules Of Life for myself that I also frankly think everyone else should follow as well. ;-) And should be present in legislation as well. Here's one.

Rule #1: Continually or periodically re-evaluate in-place systems to make sure they reflect their intent. If the intent no longer applies, remove or otherwise invalidate the system. If the intent has changed, revise the system.

Rule #1 is, of course, subject to Rule #1.

Posted by Curt at March 31, 2003 07:07 PM