The Mysteries Around the Origins of Serendipity For more than 250 years, the official origin story of serendipity has rested […]
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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 […]
Authentic Serendipity: The True Lessons of the Three Princes of Serendip
In my previous essays, I explored how certain crucial concepts — unanticipated, anomalous, strategic — have quietly slipped out of […]
Why “Unexpected” Is the Wrong Word for Defining Serendipity
We speak endlessly about unexpected discoveries, unexpected encounters, and unexpected insights. That alone should make us pause. If something is […]