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a dozen cards from Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies deck
12 items
- 01Honour thy error as a hidden intention
- 02Use an old idea
- 03Try faking it!
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01
Steal like an artist - trace your influences honestly, nothing is original
this is the book's whole thesis, still true
02
Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things
03
Write the book you want to read
pin this above the desk
04
Use your hands
05
Side projects are important
06
Do good work and put it where people can see it
the 'secret,' per Kleon
07
Geography is no longer our master
08
Be nice (the world is a small town)
people skip this one and shouldn't
09
Be boring (it's the only way to get work done)
10
Creativity is subtraction
(still true) - constraints, not more tools
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