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Why We Kill Anomalies – Just When Understanding Could Begin?
Stories of serendipitous discovery are well known. We have learned many elegant episodes about serendipity; they are usually told as […]
A Closer Look at the Content of “Authentic Serendipity-and Why We Need 21st-Century Jesters”
Welcome to a look inside my new book, Authentic Serendipity — and Why We Need 21st-Century Jesters. What began as […]
The Book I Wrote—and the Book That Rewrote Me
When Writing Becomes a Peregrinaggio My new book, Authentic Serendipity—and Why We Need 21st-Century Jesters, has now been published. Writing […]
Why Walpole Got It All Wrong – I Finally Found a Reason Why Serendipity Research Is Ambiguous
The Mysteries Around the Origins of Serendipity For more than 250 years, the official origin story of serendipity has rested […]
The Diversity Paradox Revisited – How the Book Project Cultivated My Thinking
Why I No Longer Think Facilitation Is Enough A few days ago, while revisiting my old presentation materials, I stumbled […]
Luck Surface Area: Why “The More You Do, the Luckier You Get” Is Misleading
One of the most popular pieces of career advice in recent years is also one of the most misleading: increase […]
Hard Hands-On Research Is Possible — Even in Serendipity
Last week I spent 45 minutes on a wonderful Google Meet with Susan Hilbolling . Susan, together with Pernille Smith, […]
Advance Endorsement of Authentic Serendipity – David Firth
llkka Kakko says some very nice things in his book about our own take on the Corporate Fool concept, which […]
Advance Endorsement of Authentic Serendipity – Torfinn Slåen
Authentic Serendipity by Ilkka Kakko is a remarkable book: intellectually rich, deeply researched, and unexpectedly timely. It brings together wide-ranging […]
Serendipity Lost —Twenty Years on the Cognitive Pilgrimage from netWork Oasis
Photo courtesy Spaces 1/2009: Peripatos – the Walk & Talk artery of netWork Oasis with its embedded GLOW competence platform […]
The Jesters Were There All Along: Three Meanings of Serendipity
(Photo courtesy: AI-generated illustration inspired by Theodore G. Remer’s Serendipity and the Three Princes, based on the Peregrinaggio (1557).) Let […]