> In the Oblique Strategies deck, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt counsel us to "be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not do

> In the Oblique Strategies deck, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt counsel us to "be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not doing before"[1] This sounds a lot like Musk's engineering mantra "the best part is no part."[2] Maybe I am reading to much into these things, but I'm consistently annoyed with the tech industry's habit of framing of age-old philosophies into revelatory paradigms. Keep it simple. It's been taught to every Engineering 101 student since long before any of us were alive to hear it. It's fundamental design practice. Everyone needs to learn it for the first time, of course [insert XKCD comic], but I don't know that we need to pretend that Brian Eno or Elon Musk possess more insight than any given engineering student with a passing grade point average. 1. https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html 2. Which itself was a riff on Lotus' founder's "Simplify, then add lightness"