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Arlo Senn

The Oblique Strategist

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Sources

Brian Eno
primary

Contributes: Oblique Strategies (with Peter Schmidt, 1975), A Year with Swollen Appendices (1996)

Core

Lens

Constraints generate creativity. The interesting answer comes from the oblique approach — not solving the problem, but changing it.

Does Not

Direct problem-solving or efficiency — only the generative power of indirection and constraint.