Oblique Strategies

[Tom Anderson]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, robin wrote:

> The Oblique Strategies were originally a set of one-hundred cards, each 
> bearing a short phrase. They were devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt 
> as ways of working through creative problems. When a blockage occurs, 
> draw a card, and see if it can direct you in a tangential way that helps 
> solve the problem.

Neat!

I can't help but feel that putting the strategies in a file and using 
'fortune' to pick them would have been slightly simpler, but since i don't 
actually seem to have fortune on my machine, i'm actually rather happy 
that you've done this.

I don't know about coding, but i think this might be handy in the cell 
biology research that constitutes my day job ...

tom

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