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  1. @EskoKilpi Not so sure: serendipity is more complex and user-generated than that. bit.ly/KeH3Tk
  2. @annegalloway As a prof of mine told her philosophy class, "why don't you start by assuming you DON'T exist, and see where you end up?"
  3. @annegalloway Agreed, but I think starting with the assumption that you have a lot of freedom is a good opening gambit.
  4. More reflections on @ajkeen, serendipity and technology. Thanks to @EvanSelinger for getting me thinking about it! contemplativecomputing.org/2012/05/reflec… #fb
  5. Reflections on serendipity bit.ly/KY1Yrl
  6. @EvanSelinger FINALLY A USE FOR PHENOMENOLOGY!
  7. @anthonymobile You're not in the prediction game!
  8. @mccormicktim @hrheingold I've been deleting FB and Twitter apps from my mobile devices. Makes me less self-distractible.
  9. @mccormicktim @hrheingold At Highwire + Stanford are you ever more than about 10 feet from a wireless router?
  10. @EvanSelinger So for ex. we "know" how to recognize serendipity in the pages of Britannica or the New Yorker, but not their Web sites.
  11. @EvanSelinger Which means we can design to encourage/discourage it, but not "deliver" it. It's a way of seeing the world not an algorithm...
  12. @EvanSelinger I think serendipity is like attention: it's created by users in the world, not delivered to us by technology...
  13. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88: nyti.ms/KDvxyk A great writer and unmatched critic of war literature.
  14. Time "is the most-used noun in the English language:" nymag.com/print/?/arts/b… #fb
  15. @odannyboy A good lesson that feeling busy is not the same as being busy. Easy to forget in the delirious professions.
  16. New book on social jet lag and how culture "radically complicate(s)... our relationship to time." bit.ly/Ithvm0 via @ilparone
  17. Excellent essay. Worth your attention. RT @ilparone: the supreme masters of the avant-garde art of persuasion bit.ly/IEHcMJ #art #fb
  18. @odannyboy My life changed when I started getting up @ 5 am to write. Too bleary to be distracted is an oddly effective state.