Maybe Just a Little More Homework

You showed wonderful taste, tact and instincts in your notes for the jacket copy of my latest novel. I hope you'll help me explain this new, peculiar project

Forget This Good Thing is a project I’ve been working on for the past three plus years with Matthew Dublin. It’s an oracle in the form of a website, an app, a website and a pair of books. It’s designed to work like a conversation or a window into the unknown.

You can try the whole experience for free, or read the FAQs here. There are a lot of ways to use and explain Forget This Good Thing. That’s where I need your help.

I’m looking for a single tagline, something that does the work of explaining what it is, while whetting a possible user’s curiosity - something that would fit on a bookmark or a sticker.

So how about a game?

Below, I have thirteen fairly distinct descriptions of Forget This Good Thing. Just type the number of your favorite tagline in the comments, and maybe add a few words of why you like it best.

I know that there are some scary smart people among my subscribers, so I’m excited to hear what you think. The winning caption will go on the promotional materials for Forget This Good Thing.

Possible taglines

1. Synchronicity can tell you what you don’t already know, and what you may not want to hear

2. There are some answers that can only come from no one you know. There are times we all need to be interrupted sometimes

3. Hundreds of observations, jokes, meditations, riddles and stories somehow suited the precise moment where you find yourself

4. A conversation with the unknown. A new kind of reading experience

5. Fifteen hundred original aphorisms selected by a random-number-generator. Why? The way out of an impasse can’t be what got you there

6. An oracle and an app. An exploration and an experiment. What it helps you find is what it’s for

7. Data can’t tell you what you need to break free. How about a conversation with a smart, long-lost friend with big news who keeps changing the subject?

8. A new experiment based on the oldest form of literature - to unearth your unspoken question and to blindside the seemingly impossible

9. You already know what you want to know. How’s that going?

10. The I-Ching meets a retired poet, a tech genius and the swirling winds of so-called random chance to transform the nearest screen to an escape hatch

11. An attempt - by turns playful and deadly serious - to harness a fundamental force of the universe to turn the world's 6.6 billion smartphones into real-time oracles 

12. Interfere with the imprisoning tendencies of all minds - yours, ours and beyond. We know you need it because we need it too

13. Technology and art engage with the force of surprisingly meaningful random chance to speak to you in a way that might matter 

Selected Bibliography

Forget This Good Thing – Try it right now for free on any device

Forget This Good Thing - Essay on its creation - Essay on what it can do for you

Forget This Good Thing – The app for iPhone and iPad

Forget This Good Thing – Paper book 1 - Paper book 2

Forget This Good Thing – All About It

A good, sturdy version of the I-Ching