Pareen Lathia

No. 2026
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Oblique Strategies

A deck of cards for getting unstuck. I reach for it when a problem has me cornered.

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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s deck of prompts for when you’re stuck — “Honour thy error as a hidden intention,” “What would your closest friend do?” Each card is a small crowbar for prying a problem open from a different side.

I keep a version of it bookmarked and pull a card when a piece of writing or code has me cornered. It works more often than it has any right to.