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The King Without Jesters – Lessons from the Fall of netWork Oasis
Once upon a time, there was an award-winning global reference model for collaborative working environments in Joensuu, Finland — a […]
The Abduction of Authentic Serendipity
As this, or any other, complex word grows in usage, it gathers up many new meanings… to the point where […]
Serendipity Management: Lessons from Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir and G.E. Research
The world is full of mystery — and so are the ways chance events intertwine with our wandering thoughts across […]
The Battle Cry of Jesterhood: “Not All Who Wonder Are Lost”
Our planet is burning—literally. Everywhere, people wake up anxious, afraid, and outraged at the countless mistakes we’ve made. ” Do […]
The Whale and the Wind Turbine: A Story of Unlikely Innovation
What does a humpback whale have in common with a wind turbine? More than you might think. This is a […]
Sometimes, it takes a bird to teach engineers how to be quiet
The Shinkansen, Japan’s iconic bullet train, faced a noisy dilemma in the 1980s: as speeds approached 300 km/h, trains exiting […]
The Forgotten Act: Bruner, Koestler, and the Spacious Origins of Discovery
In 1962, American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner published a quiet but luminous essay titled The Act of Discovery. Just 20 […]
From Doing Mode to Insight: A Case for the 21st Century Jester
Modern work culture is suffocating under the weight of its own productivity dogma. In a compelling recent HBR article, Megan […]
Commenting Fixed – My Apologies!
Dear readers, It was recently brought to my attention that the commenting feature on this blog wasn’t working properly — […]
Twelve Years Later: From Coincidensity to Conceptual Dilution — Why It’s Time to Reclaim Serendipity
Photo courtesy: Ilkka Kakko. “My six-basket tribute to coincidensity. Filed under: Networking, Not Working. Njet working.” This the final PART […]
Serendipity vs. Survivorship Bias – Stop Glorifying the Lucky Exception
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svgThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.) This is Part 2 of my “20 Years […]