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Oblique Strategies Telegram Bot

My humble telegram bot that I developed for and devoted to my beloved husband as a silly gesture; to send him random "oblique strategies" at random intervals, for some spontaneous mind poking.

  • Hosted on AWS Lambda
  • Web-hooked to Telegram through API Gateway
  • Easily deployed through Serverless
  • Self-scheduled through Eventbridge rules, with randomized fixed rate intervals
  • Using DynamoDB for data storage

But what is "oblique strategies"?

As per Wikipedia:

Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Physically, it takes the form of a deck of 7-by-9-centimetre (2.8 in × 3.5 in) printed cards in a black box. Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.