SIXTEEN selections from over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas, First published in 1975
By BRIAN ENO and PETER SCHMIDT

These cards evolved from our separate observations of the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated.

They can be used as a pack (a set of possibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from the shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case, the card is trusted even if its appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident.

Emphasize the flaws

Cut a vital connection

Destroy nothing/the most important thing

Use ‘unqualified’ people

Give way to your worst impulse

Would anybody want it?

Do something boring

Towards the insignificant

Use an unacceptable colour

Use ‘unqualified’ people

Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

Question the heroic approach

Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate

Repetition is a form of change

Distorting time

Honour thy error as a hidden intention