I’d like to read a Big History history of luck. Mapping streams of serendipity and zemblanity across time.
Big Luck theory over Big Man theory, but as something that can be engineered, rather than a fatalist denial of human agency.
Luck studies over progress studies
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Serendipitously enough, I'm writing a "manifesto" for something like progress studies & these tweets get at the issue I have w the "psychological" dimensions of that piece.
Not a huge S J Gould fan but the quote about Einstein's brain springs to mind...
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James Austin provides an interesting framework for luck in Chase, Chance and Creativity.
He talks about 4 types of luck:
1- fully accidental
2- motion: the harder I work..
3- special receptivity: you can see things others can’t
4- comes to you because of who you are
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