“Redraw it” is the last and hardest move of the method, and the most misunderstood. People assume redrawing a system means removing its limits — freeing it up. Usually the opposite is true.
Constraints that generate
A generative constraint is a limit that opens rather than closes. The blank page paralyzes; the sonnet’s fourteen lines produce poetry. Constraints reduce the space of options, and that reduction is often what makes good options findable at all.
Freedom-as-absence-of-constraint is usually a route to waste and capture, not flourishing. The skilled move is not fewer constraints but better-chosen ones — limits that channel effort toward what you actually want, the way banks make a river instead of a swamp.
Making the good path natural
The test of a redraw is simple: after it, does doing the right thing require heroism, or is it the path of least resistance? If virtue still has to swim upstream, you haven’t finished redrawing — you’ve just written a rule. Good geometry makes the outcome you want the one the slope produces on its own.
No wasted geometry, read forward, is the search for exactly these lines: the smallest set that makes the good outcome the natural one, with a way built in to notice when you were wrong.