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Creativity Through Constraint

Arnold Schönberg, c. 1928, photograph by Georg Fayer

In 1908, Arnold Schoenberg gave up on tonality — and discovered that total freedom collapses into entropy. The same law governs data organizations: one resolved identity per entity, decided at the door, is what makes everything built on top of it trustworthy enough to move fast.

June 1, 2026 · 5 min read