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  1. Carson Gross is delivering the Keynote "Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology (How The Nintendo Philosophy Applies to Modern Web Development)" at the DjangoCon US 2025 in Chicago 🇺🇸

    CC @djangocon

  2. New fire shed in the locality over from ours. Fully decked out with kitchen, comfortable couches etc.

    Meanwhile, bunch of crafting grandmas need somewhere to meet after losing their previous location.

    A brigade member tells them to use the new fire shed, it’s empty most of the time anyway.

    Win-win!

    But no! Some (excuse me while I go full Australian) bloody drongo shows up and tells the grandmas to bugger off.

    Brigade member says, not on, mate, and tells the district fire chief.

    Who signs the grandmas up as auxiliary brigade members.

    Problem solved! With a side of not-very-malicious compliance.

    (Also, now the grandmas will come to the annual meeting and you better believe they’ll bring snacks: win-win-WIN)

    #LateralThinking #GoodNews #CountryLife

  3. 2016: Came up with idea of Vennt diagram (Venn diagram with vents), a whole 'nother visual categorization of categorizations!

    Movement from one state to another = "evennt" 🎊

    Impermanence surrounds us, nature sometimes creates equilibria that flow across different states.

    #category #visualization #synthesis #perspective #lateralthinking #creativity

  4. I’m always surprised how the PMI strategy by Dr. Edward de Bono (the father of Lateral Thinking) is so simple and extremely effective

    I’m a sucker for simplicity

    Particularly at work, there is no need to explain anything, you just go for it and everybody understand and follow the brainstorming

    Stops emotional decision and clarify those "ambiguous gut feelings"

    #sketchnotes #lateralthinking #brainstorming

  5. @pseudonym If only "and the brakes fail" weren't part of the issue. I'd buy it if you came up with a way to slow the trolley some Other way, thereby minimizing casualties. I hear the dudes have come up with these new fangled "sail"-like things to put on boats. Maybe something like that. (If you think I'm being oddly snarky about sails and don't know why, just look it up. It's Great! Lol)

    #LateralThinking is more fun when you Do take the brakes off.

  6. The Trolley "problem". Put on the brakes, save everyone.

    Don't accept the framing. Break the "rules". That's how you solve the problem.

    That's the toot.

    #lateralThinking

  7. I believe that had the UK simply embraced Europe’s love of Paprika crisps we wouldn’t have left the EU.

    Also dill pickle flavour.

    #politics #lateralthinking #scotland #europe

  8. @freezr Più che altro è morto in modo a dir poco rocambolesco, degno di un #lateralthinking... (pare sia rimasto soffocato in una stanza d'albergo mentre praticava autoerotismo con una corda appunto infliggendosi il soffocamento)