Oblique Strategies (1st Edition)\\Over a hundred worthwhile dilemmas\\\Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt\1975
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Abandon normal instruments
Accept advice
Accretion
Allow an easement\(an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
Always first steps
Are there sections?\Consider transitions
Ask people to work\against their better judgement
Ask your body
Be dirty
Be extravagant
Be less critical more often
Breathe more deeply
Change nothing and continue\with immaculate consistency
Courage!
Cut a vital connection
Decorate, decorate
Define an area as 'safe'\and use it as an anchor
Destroy\- nothing\- the most important thing
Discard an axiom
Disciplined self-indulgence
Disconnect from desire
Discover the recipes you are using\and abandon them
Distorting time
Do nothing for as long as possible
Do something boring
Do the words need changing?
Do we need holes?
Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
Don't be frightened of cliches
Don't be frightened to display your talents
Don't break the silence
Don't stress one thing more than another
Emphasise differences
Emphasise the flaws
Faced with a choice do both (given by Diter Rot)
Gardening, not architecture
Give the game away
Give way to your worst impulse
Go outside.\Shut the door
Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place
Honour thy error as a hidden intention
How would you have done it?
Humanise something free of error
In total darkness or in a very large room, very quietly
Is it finished?
Is there something missing?
Just carry on
Listen to the quiet voice
Look at the order in which you do things
Look closely at the most embarrassing\details and amplify them
Make a blank valuable\by putting it in an exquisite frame
Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do\and do the last thing on the list
Make it more sensual
Make something implied more definite (reinforce, duplicate)
Not building a wall but making a brick
Once the search is in progress, something will be found
Only a part, not the whole
Only one element of each kind
Overtly resist change
Question the heroic approach
Remember those quiet evenings
Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
Repetition is a form of change
Retrace your steps
Reverse
Short circuit\\(example; a man eating peas\with the idea that they will\improve his virility shovels them\straight into his lap)\\
Simple subtraction
Simply a matter of work
Slow preparation...Fast execution
State the problem in words\as clearly as possible
Take a break
Take away the elements\in order of apparent non importance
The inconsistency principle
The most important thing is\the thing most easily forgotten
Think\- inside the work\- outside the work
Tidy up
Towards the insignificant
Trust in the you of now
Try faking it!\\\(given by Stewart Brand)\
Turn it upside down
Use 'unqualified' people
Use an old idea
Use an unacceptable colour
Use filters
Voice nagging suspicions
Water
What are you really\thinking about just now?\Incorporate
What mistakes did you make last time?
What to increase?\What to reduce?
What to maintain?
What would your closest friend do?
What wouldn't you do?
When is it for?
Where's the edge?\Where does the frame start?
Which elements can be grouped?
Which frame would make this look right?
Who should be doing this job?\How would they do it?
Work at a different speed
Would anybody want it?
You are an engineer
You don't have to be ashamed\of using your own ideas
