Cultivating Serendipity
Keely Adler and
Cultivating Serendipity
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
by virtue of being less planned, they are filled with personality, character, and charm.
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