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
Liked Tweetstwitter.comSerendipity is luck + action. To be luckier, take more active action . Walk wherever you can. Take the stairs. When you have ideas, turn them into action steps and get to work.
chrisguillebeau.com • 36 Ways to Live Differently
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
much of what gives one’s life meaning stems from accidents, interruptions, and serendipitous encounters: the “off time” that a mechanistic view of experience seeks to eliminate.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing
Why is that a revelation? Well, the problem is that if you think about it, what that means is that the only way to discover any of these things was to not be trying to discover them.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
Digital gardens hold a component of discovery where gardeners may be delighted or surprised by what they may find. They are designed to embrace a culture of learning, where one may be open to be changed by ideas.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
We enjoy something more when we experience it as unnecessary, unexpected and wonderful.
Emily Austin • How to Live Like an Epicurean
Many social goals are best accomplished indirectly; singles parties are never the best singles parties, dinners devoted to a discussion topic rarely produce good conversation; you’ve got to cultivate the conditions, not demand the behavior
Sasha Chapinx.com