I don’t believe in tarot cards whatsoever, but I still love them. They can be beautiful and they have wonderful sense of both playfulness and mystery.
To be clear, I do not believe in their ability as a supernatural tool to predict the future.
But I do believe in people and imagination and the power of breaking that imagination out of the prison where we keep it.
Our ability to solve complex problems is hampered by by the biases, habits, constraints and blinker that we accrue over time and which shackle our imagination.
This is why I love tools like Oblique Strategies, tarot cards, the I Ching and random concept generators. By forcing us to consider random, evocative prompts, they break our imaginations free and allow them to consider a broader set of possibilities.
It’s why I’m creating a business strategy oracle that you can use to create and test strategy concepts.
There are often more levers to pull, more possibilities to explore and more potential futures to consider, we might just need a kick up the pants to see them properly.
And it’s completely fine for that kick to come from a supernatural concept that doesn’t work. Except when it does.
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If you want to test the strategy oracle when it’s ready for people to push against it, drop me a line.
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