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What rule has made you freer?
Rules can restrict action and also give it a shape that makes action possible.
Your answer
A little context
You stopped bringing your phone into the bedroom, and within a week you were reading again. Or you made it a rule to answer email only after lunch, and the mornings became your own. Most rules feel like fences. This one felt like room.
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- If you've done nothing wrong, should you mind being watched?The argument sounds airtight until you picture every message, search and place you've been, laid out for the people who know you.
- Predicted before you choseIf a system can predict what you will choose before you know it yourself, is the choice still yours?
