This document discusses the concepts of serendipity, emergence, and complexity. It explores how serendipity is more than just chance encounters, and involves an ability to creatively connect events and see opportunities that others may miss. True serendipity requires being open, attentive, and listening for unexpected discoveries and insights. The document suggests we are all capable of serendipity, but many are not given the freedom or trust to allow new ideas and patterns to emerge in a self-organizing way. Letting go of control and listening authentically to others may help unlock more serendipitous breakthroughs.

3. well.. maybe.
or.. maybe not so much.

4. from 2012 post on youblog: rgbwaves & fourier & crickets
[rgbwaves .. love their site graphic]
the serendipity already is. everywhere.
the sync is what matters. can we listen for that.

5. The only wherewithal we might have to rely on is the
quality of our feelings and thinking brought together
through the habit of ‘practice and serendipity’ or
simply having a ‘prepared attentive mind’
since the need is to adapt moment to
moment. Or simply stated, our contextual intelligence
can come to our rescue to maintain balance.
life in perpetual beta
embracing uncertainty
antifragile
http://rgbwaves.com/2012/08/10/problems-landscapes-habits-leadership-in-the-21st-century/

6. Nemetics is a flexible thought model that
allows us to synthesize mathematical thinking,
subjective insights and feelings to re-design
our lives for the better. The objective of the
flexible thought model is to make sense of
complex adaptive systems and to act upon
them. It may be effectively applied to various
fields like organizations, manufacturing
systems, engineering, organizational sociology,
economics, design, system design, system
reliability and even to psychology and a host of
others fields.
or to people. 7 billion+ of them.. no?
http://rgbwaves.com/2012/08/10/problems-landscapes-habits-leadership-in-the-21st-century/

7. In short Nemetics can be best described as a
study of origins of the various complex
phenomena within which we exist. Or in other
words it is the ontological inquiry in
general that seeks the
transcendental truths operating
behind everyday phenomenon.
perhaps we’re missing the dance.. because we
keep looking elsewhere for the dance steps..
when they
(the steps, the music, the rhythm, the sync-ability)
are already inside each one of us.
http://rgbwaves.com/2012/08/10/problems-landscapes-habits-leadership-in-the-21st-century/

8. so perhaps.. serendipity is most about
listening.
(ie: not even about creating the perfect spaces for
serendipity to happen, unless we decide that simply entails
– freeing all art-ists at the same time, in sync)
perhaps if we just focus on 2 things
(authenticity & attachment)
we’ll give serendipity
(peace, betterness, et al)
a chance.
because
perhaps authenticity is the only way we hear
the things we need to hear.
and because
perhaps attachment is the only thing that
keeps us safe/calm/home/quiet/free
enough
to keep on
listening.
(input matters if output matters ness)

9. Since the aim of Nemetics is to gain direct
knowledge of the transcendental the
fundamental premise is praxis
for the simple reason that the theory of such
complex emergence ... simply might not exist.
It has to be worked out. The idea is to move
from practice to theory and then to practice
again.
http://rgbwaves.com/2012/08/10/problems-landscapes-habits-leadership-in-the-21st-century/

10. When many oscillators couple together they
form a general group pattern. Appearance of
such a group pattern is what is known as
‘emergence’. Thus our task perhaps simplifies
to understanding and interpreting such
patterns exhibited by group behavior, which
are simply known as emergence.
again.. serendipity et al
not about the
prep/design-of-a-space/structure/system
as we generally view these things
(ie: design classroom or office space or even city, et al).
but about the
bravery/freedom/openness/awakeness/aliven
ess/trust
to let it/us emerge.
listen/emerge/listen. all one dance of improv.
no prep.
as prep.
http://rgbwaves.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/how-to-embrace-uncertainty-of-complex-systems-with-a-smile/

11. which is great news
we don’t have to have years of training
or mounds of manuals/policy/bureaucracy
or only let certain credentialed people be
in charge of the day.
we just have to free people.
and trust that.
let’s do that first.
and just see.
we’ve spent plenty of years doing it
the other way around.
(the B/b way)

12. Hence faced with an issue on
‘interdependence’ we have two tasks ahead of
us. First is to understand and interpret the
group behavior and patterns that emerge.
There are several ways of going about it. One
of my favorite is to see the wave patterns
generated. The idea is to identify the type of
wave and the type of attractor that it might be
associated with.
perhaps the
interdependence/interconnectedness of
humans
relies more on trusting 100% of us.
perhaps we haven’t yet seen the (serendipitous)
dance
because we haven’t yet trusted 100%
of us.
(www won’t work w/o the whole world. rewire for ni.)
http://rgbwaves.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/how-to-embrace-uncertainty-of-complex-systems-with-a-smile/

13. fourier and crickets..
Maria Popova (@brainpicker)
8/18/12 3:01 PM
“Our ability to cope with uncertainty is
one of the most important requirements
for success in life.” Risk Intelligence j.mp/OZIpkh

14. A faster transform means that less computer
power is required to process a given amount of
information—a boon to energy-conscious
mobile multimedia devices such as smart
phones. Or with the same amount of power,
engineers can contemplate doing things that
the computing demands of the original FFT
made impractical. For example, Internet
backbones and routers today can actually read
or process only a tiny trickle of the river of bits
they pass between them. The SFT could allow
researchers to study the flow of this traffic in
much greater detail as bits shoot by billions of
times a second.
like the vision/thinking of David‘s vest
another sense. all about grokkingness.
a refocus: self-talk as data.
a revolution of everyday life.
http://www2.technologyreview.com/news/427676/a-faster-fourier-transform/

15. More-intelligent-species-on-Earth-than-
Humans – crickets
The wave based communication of Humans is
far more limited than crickets, seen in
places like dance clubs, prices in stock markets
(less total stocks than neurons in a small
number of crickets brains), body language, etc,
but these wave based communications of
Humans do not tend to spread to other
Humans nearly as well as oscillating sounds
spread in large groups of crickets. Humans
communicate mostly in words.
Crickets communicate mostly in waves. There
are waves of words as ideas flow through
society, which we call memes, but at the
brainwave level we are still communicating
between brain cells like crickets communicate
with sound.
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7821/More-intelligent-species-on-Earth-than-Humans

16. perhaps we go with way more/less words
and just focus on
listening-to/riding/feeling/grokking/whatevering the waves.
still.
quiet.
enough.

17. Serendipity means a “fortunate happenstance”
or “pleasant surprise”. It was coined by Horace
Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a
friend Walpole explained an unexpected
discovery he had made by reference to a
Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of
Serendip. The princes, he told his
correspondent, were “always making
discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things
which they were not in quest of”.

18. The notion of serendipity is a common
occurrence throughout the history of scientific
innovation such as Alexander Fleming’s
accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928 and
the invention of the microwave oven by Percy
Spencer in 1945.

19. Serendipity is not just a matter of a random
event, nor can it be taken simply as a synonym
for “a happy accident” (Ferguson, 1999; Khan,
1999), “finding out things without
being searching for them” (Austin,
2003), or “a pleasant surprise” (Tolson, 2004) ..
difference between random and whimsy
perhaps what makes the chaos a dance

20. The New Oxford Dictionary of English defines
serendipity as the occurrence and
development of events by chance in a
satisfactory or beneficial way, understanding
the chance as any event that takes place in the
absence of any obvious project
(randomly or accidentally), which is not
relevant to any present need, or in which the
cause is unknown.
no agenda ness

21. Innovations presented as examples of
serendipity have an important characteristic:
they were made by individuals able to
“see bridges where others saw holes” and
connect events creatively, based on the
perception of a significant link.
i’m guessing we all have this ability.
we just haven’t given most of us
(so any of us)
a chance.

22. The chance is an event, serendipity a capacity. The
Nobel Prize laureate Paul Flory suggests that
significant inventions are not mere accidents.
[..]
The serendipitous can play an important role in
the search for truth, but because of traditional
scientific behavior and scientific thinking based on
logic and predictability is often ignored in the
scientific literature.

23. you can explode with abundant serendipitous
encounters all you want
if people aren’t awake/looking/listening
makes not enough difference.

24. One day we might be able to stumble upon
new and better ways of getting lost.
– Pagan Kennedy
absolutely
a nother way
we can today
we can’t not
for (blank)’s sake
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/how-to-cultivate-the-art-of-serendipity.html

25. A major part of decision-making involves the
analysis of a finite set of
alternativesdescribed in terms of
evaluative criteria.
redefineschool.com/gupta-roadblock-law/
from redefineschool.com/decision-making/

26. from waggle dance to intelligent swarming unu pucks..
and w/a finite group of people..
this is the difference today… no?
perhaps why we have not yet… gotten to a place of
tweaking/changing agency (Smári) – we’re stuck clinging to consensus
and finite/engineering ness
redefineschool.com/louis-rosenberg/
redefineschool.com/smari-mccarthy/

27. we can’t seem to
enough.. to let people.. all of us.. dance..
and dance whenever/wherever/however with whomever
and dance as though we might change our mind tomorrow..
perhaps our democratic ness is our worst perpetuation (of not-us ness)
because it claims/appears to be letting go.
letting us dance.
yet.. deciding what we should be dancing about.. and who we should be
dancing with..
redefineschool.com/perpetuate/
redefineschool.com/spinach-or-rock/

28. we need a mechanism that helps us all…
enough.. to let people.. all of us.. dance..
to ongoingly have space/silence enough to listen to/for the rhythm of us.
redefineschool.com/mechanism-simple-enough/

29. imagine being brave enough, awake enough, open/free enough..
to let our dancing be antifragile

30. redefineschool.com/eu-daimon-ia/
the dance will dance
when every single person
is
free/brave/woke
enough
to listen to their heart
and just
be

31. a lot of flapping/verbiage/whatever going on in this deck
might be perceived as planning/controlling/engineering ness.
meant.. as reassurance/whatever to the ones seeking
flapping/verbiage/engineering/whatever
l e t g o
the serendipity already is. everywhere.
the sync is what matters. can we listen for that.

32. less about controlling/engineering ..
more about letting go..
aka: listening for the serendipitous already in us
has to be all of us
redefineschool.com/www/
redefineschool.com/as-the-day/

33. redefineschool.com/revolution-in-reverse/ ness as redefineschool.com/serendipity/ ness