Designing Luck: Stochastic Serendipity

Stochastic Serendipity Engineering design concept.

I spent most of my twenties watching “innovation consultants” charge six-figure fees to pitch something they called “structured spontaneous collaboration,” which was really just a fancy way of saying they wanted to force people into awkward icebreaker games. It was a complete joke. They were trying to manufacture lightning in a bottle using spreadsheets and …