The Human Code Podcast. Rasmus Explores Scenario Planning and The Serendipity Economy Dan had the pleasure of the last couple of months to spend time with The Human Code's Don Finely, discussing scenario planning and The Serendipty Economy. The Human Code is available via the Bruzzsprout links in the blog. It can also be found on Spotify and Apple … [Read more...] about The Human Code Podcast. Rasmus Explores Scenario Planning and The Serendipity Economy: the Scary, the Meh and the Aspirational.
Serendipity Economy
The Myth of Water Cooler Innovation: Time to Reinvent Work
The Myth of Water Cooler Innovation: Time to Reinvent Work A September 2021 New York Times article, When Chance Encounters at the Water Cooler Are Most Useful, documents the myth of the water cooler conversation as a driver of innovation. What is true about water cooler conversations is that they help establish new relationships or reinforce existing ones. These … [Read more...] about The Myth of Water Cooler Innovation: Time to Reinvent Work
Serendipity and Milton’s First Folio: Discovering Milton’s Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Serendipity and Milton's First Folio The First Folio of Shakespeare's work ranks among the rarest of books. Only about 230 copies survive. One copy of the Folios donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia included long ignored marginalia. It turns out that serendipity had a role to play in rediscovering Milton's First Folio copy hundreds of years after the author's death. By … [Read more...] about Serendipity and Milton’s First Folio: Discovering Milton’s Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Welcome to the Serendipity Economy
Industrial age economics obscures economic activity that doesn’t fit neatly into its models of productivity and efficiency. In an ever more connected world, a new framework is required that accounts for the value derived from seemingly random and unanticipated encounters and interactions. The Serendipity Economy framework posits six attributes that identify faults in our … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Serendipity Economy
Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul
Concept of Spacecraft with Asteroid Capture Mechanism Deployed-By leveraging capabilities across all of NASA, the agency is developing a first-ever mission to identify, rendezvous with, capture and redirect a small asteroid into a stable orbit in the lunar vicinity, and then send humans to visit it using the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. This mission … [Read more...] about Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul
