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Obliquity

Achieving complex objectives indirectly.

Stowe Boyd
Oct 13, 2021
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[Based on something I started in June of 2017, now surfacing.]

I read John Kay’s Obliquity with deep enjoyment, and the fragment below may demonstrate why.

Obliquity, as Kay defines it, ‘describes the process of achieving complex objectives indirectly’. The idea is derived from the philosophic principle that trying to find happiness directly seems to fail…

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