Instead of Networking, Build a Serendipity Engine — Daniel Stillman
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Instead of Networking, Build a Serendipity Engine — Daniel Stillman
How to increase your surface area for luck
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Steven Johnson, “chance favors the connected mind.”
Manifesto
In the 1950s, sociologist Robert Merton coined the ugly but informative term ‘serendipitous socio-cognitive microenvironments’ to capture a similar idea: that some settings seem to encourage discovery and creativity, random encounters that lead to new ideas.