Cultivating Serendipity
Keely Adler and
Cultivating Serendipity
leaned into serendipity and all these wonderful things came at me
says something about over engineering our lives
serendipitous connections can't occur if you're not creating the right environment for them
obvi don't be annoying people
if they don't wanna talk to u that's cool
i guarantee there is at least one person who is *unknowingly* waiting to connect w/ you
By disobeying the digital design standards, we find room to explore new possibilities. We create surprise and we dive into the undiscovered. Refusing these guidelines, we design new spaces within which new narratives can occur, that people should take time to discover and understand. By doing so, we create a relationship with our welcomed visitors
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In my view, we should each invest a few hours a week in reading research that ostensibly has nothing to do with our day jobs, in a setting that has nothing in common with our regular workspaces. This kind of structured serendipity just might help us become more creative, and I doubt that it can hurt.
jasonzweig.com • Structured Serendipity | Jason Zweig
There is, as it happens, a word for this: zemblanity, the opposite of serendipity*.* Pandemic Time is suffused with zemblanity; it is a temporality shaped by a sense of certain doom, foreseen and amenable to some mitigation, but not entirely avertable.
Venkatesh Rao • Pandemic Time
If algorithms delve into every corner of our lives until nothing inexplicable remains, the loss will be tremendous.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
We enjoy something more when we experience it as unnecessary, unexpected and wonderful.
Emily Austin • How to Live Like an Epicurean
A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
Henrik Karlssonescapingflatland.substack.com