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Chance meetings are especially important in causing new things to happen. But what organization measures that? No one measures progress till there is a project to measure the progress of. I bet even Google doesn't formally measure the rate at which new things get started.
I know about the power of chance meetings because Y Combinator is explicitly designed to magnify it. Whenever YC brings together any group of more than about 4 founders for any reason, there ends up being an important conversation between some pair of them.
There was an article from 2013 called Engineering Serendipity. Big room here for a startup to design chance meetings as a service.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/opinion/sunday/engineering-serendipity.html …
I don’t know if you read tweets from random people, but: Discord has solved that problem for us. Our AI discord now has 400 users, with 60 online at any given time. It’s shocking how many chance meetings happen there, because only AI nerds show up. (Founders are often AI nerds.)
VR can emulate those in a way video or text chats can't. With development of vr enviroments and tools that bring life to vr communications we will have this surely. And we are close to this already, just look at this conversation.https://youtu.be/Akw7fVgmcLc
This is powerful insight.
I think there is also an opportunity for remote software to facilitate "chance" meetings. Maybe at different times of the day block time in the calendar and randomly assign a group of people to talk for 15 minutes on anything that's top of mind
Maybe I’m just an introvert but I have no experience of chance encounters providing much value. People rarely think as deeply as I do about the product, and they mostly just regurgitate common knowledge, so i can only get value if I give them a complex task to perform
I agree. AI doesn't fulfill the scope of the sensory data picked up by people near each other. We respond to & react to things of which we aren't even conscious, such as smell. We give off behavioral "tells". Some may not be AI transferrable.
"What YC is, is sort of like business ski instructors, except to go up slopes instead of down them...well, ideally.” #PaulGrahampic.twitter.com/kw5zECt9Mb
Push-to-talk applications are one effective tool to enable this kind of important serendipity in remote teams--it's part of the reason we pivoted after going through YC
On the other hand, I am thinking forcing tens of thousands of employees to show up at office buildings and live in apartments is somewhat ridiculous, especially considering things like food.
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