Let Drift
Let them drift; don't correct, don't force.
Formerly Desynchronise
Reich: two identical tape loops at slightly different speeds.
Seen in Steve Reich, It's Gonna Rain, 1965
Try it on your work
Take two things you always use or move together and separate them in time: one today, its partner tomorrow, for three cycles. What each one turned out to do alone is the finding.
Answer today's questions tomorrow, in writing, deliberately late, five times. Note which questions dissolved in the gap and which grew teeth.
Take two processes that run in lockstep in your project and offset them by one interval for one cycle. The friction points are where the lockstep was doing hidden work.
How it has been used
Let things that run together drift apart: the soundtrack off the image, the caption off the photo, two habits uncoupled. Steve Reich let two identical tapes slip out of phase and made a career of what appeared. The move forbids re-aligning them when it gets uncomfortable.
Where it leads
Grouped under Push me beyond what I’d normally do