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Creative Problem Solving with a Deck of Cards
- genjipress 6y agoI have the app version of the Oblique Strategies deck, but at some point I mean to pick up the real thing.
- chuckblake 6y agoI am in the same boat. I would love to get my hands on one of the original decks one day. That app is very good and is a nice substitution.
- admiral33 6y agoAlso the twitter account [0] https://twitter.com/obliquebot?lang=en https://twitter.com/obliquebot?lang=en
- uberdru 6y agoYep, shout out to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
- puddingnomeat 6y agoPreviously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24465207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24465207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14917458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14917458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017960 One for programmers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305156
- jph 6y agoOblique Strategies: ideas for creative lateral thinking (GitHub repo) https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/oblique_strategies https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/oblique_strategies
- jph 6y agoI love oblique strategies. For programmers and team leads, there's a similar set called "The Primes" that works wonders with my technical teams, because it has the brainstorming ideas plus effective guidance: https://theprimes.com/book https://theprimes.com/book
- chuckblake 6y agocool, I'll check out "The Primes" book.
- mattmcdonnell 6y agoThis reminds me of the I Ching (of Man In The High Castle fame, plus y'know, 3000 years of history) approach to decisions, where you ask a question and then receive a random hexagram with a collection of general wisdom. It stimulates thinking around the subject, surprisingly effectively. Both that and the card deck have a lack of causal connection that works in favour of creativity. Brian Eno's Visual Music, which I think shows the problem solving card deck, amongst many other artistic experiments, is also supposed to be good.
- chuckblake 6y agoI recall reading about some other musicians that used I Ching - I think John Cage was one of them.
- novosel 6y agoLeonard Cohen was also using it at a time. (as seen in Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen)
- mattmcdonnell 6y agoPhilip Dick was supposed to have used it to guide his writing and i'd imagine other creatives have also
- richard_todd 6y agoAny divination strategy with a rich semantic palette will work like this (tarot is my personal favorite), and besides that it’s fun. There was also a guy that derived a set of problem-solving principles based on a study of patents (TRIZ), where you try to apply innovation principles, such as “does it help if you can you make one thing do the work of two things?” And if you think abstractly enough it’s kind of the same oblique process, just starting from a more empirical basis. I wish more people tried it!
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- cseleborg 6y agoIs there something similar for business and entrepreneurship?
- rolha-capoeira 6y agoDo you consider your endeavors to be non-creative? I'm not being difficult—I understand what you're asking for. But perhaps instead of a more-specific deck of cards, a more generalized POV can help.
- bluetwo 6y agoYes, more on point for creative business application is Roger Von Oech's Whack Pack series of card decks. Get them at Amazon or wherever.
- lazyant 6y agoReminds me of Dice Man
- imwillofficial 6y agoI tried the web version and got: “Fill every beat with something” Hmmmm