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.comBy 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
... See moreDVTK • Positive Friction
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
leaned into serendipity and all these wonderful things came at me
says something about over engineering our lives
Liked Tweetstwitter.comIf algorithms delve into every corner of our lives until nothing inexplicable remains, the loss will be tremendous.