From 5adcbbfbc41f1721c2517e1d6adabb844cf4f6e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nicholas Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:04:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Make a commitment. --- index.js | 0 package-lock.json | 5 +++ package.json | 11 ++++++ strategies.js | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 116 insertions(+) create mode 100644 index.js create mode 100644 package-lock.json create mode 100644 package.json create mode 100644 strategies.js diff --git a/index.js b/index.js new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d73b9e --- /dev/null +++ b/package-lock.json @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +{ + "name": "oblique-strategies-slack", + "version": "1.0.0", + "lockfileVersion": 1 +} diff --git a/package.json b/package.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e108e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/package.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "name": "oblique-strategies-slack", + "version": "1.0.0", + "description": "Slack bot who responds to mentions with a random card from Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies deck", + "main": "index.js", + "scripts": { + "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" + }, + "author": "Nicholas Warzin", + "license": "ISC" +} diff --git a/strategies.js b/strategies.js new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb2db66 --- /dev/null +++ b/strategies.js @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +Abandon desire +Abandon normal instructions +Accept advice +Adding on +A line has two sides +Always the first steps +Ask people to work against their better judgement +Ask your body +Be dirty +Be extravagant +Be less critical +Breathe more deeply +Bridges -build -burn +Change ambiguities to specifics +Change nothing and continue consistently +Change specifics to ambiguities +Consider transitions +Courage! +Cut a vital connection +Decorate, decorate +Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing +Discard an axiom +Disciplined self-indulgence +Discover your formulas and abandon them +Display your talent +Distort time +Do nothing for as long as possible +Don't avoid what is easy +Don't break the silence +Don't stress one thing more than another +Do something boring +Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable +Do the last thing first +Do the words need changing? +Emphasize differences +Emphasize the flaws +Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot) +Find a safe part and use it as an anchor +Give the game away +Give way to your worst impulse +Go outside. Shut the door. +Go to an extreme, come part way back +How would someone else do it? +How would you have done it? +In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly +Is it finished? +Is something missing? +Is the style right? +It is simply a matter or work +Just carry on +Listen to the quiet voice +Look at the order in which you do things +Magnify the most difficult details +Make it more sensual +Make what's perfect more human +Move towards the unimportant +Not building a wall; making a brick +Once the search has begun, something will be found +Only a part, not the whole +Only one element of each kind +Openly resist change +Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard +Question the heroic +Remember quiet evenings +Remove a restriction +Repetition is a form of change +Retrace your steps +Reverse +Simple Subtraction +Slow preparation, fast execution +State the problem as clearly as possible +Take a break +Take away the important parts +The inconsistency principle +The most easily forgotten thing is the most important +Think - inside the work -outside the work +Tidy up +Try faking it (from Stewart Brand) +Turn it upside down +Use an old idea +Use cliches +Use filters +Use something nearby as a model +Use 'unqualified' people +Use your own ideas +Voice your suspicions +Water +What context would look right? +What is the simplest solution? +What mistakes did you make last time? +What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain? +What were you really thinking about just now? +What wouldn't you do? +What would your closest friend do? +When is it for? +Where is the edge? +Which parts can be grouped? +Work at a different speed +Would anyone want it? +Your mistake was a hidden intention