Cultivating Serendipity
Keely Adler and
Cultivating Serendipity
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.comserendipitous 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
Liked Tweetstwitter.comIn 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
We enjoy something more when we experience it as unnecessary, unexpected and wonderful.
Emily Austin • How to Live Like an Epicurean
If algorithms delve into every corner of our lives until nothing inexplicable remains, the loss will be tremendous.