Serendipity

Luck is always useful - for us, it will be necessary.

If we need luck to win, how can we create it?  Is there a special alchemy to disproportionally load the dice in our favor?  What rabbit's foot do we have to rub, or lady need we kiss to be bestowed with such good fortune?

Serendipity is the phenomenon to harness. 

It can be studied and reproduced.  Look at simple invention, new singular devices.  Consider complex recombinations of pre-existing devices, materials, approaches and strategies.  The most impactful arise out of elegance, not complexity.  More is not always better, in fact less often wins the beauty contest.

Occasionally, what we thought we wanted becomes entirely usurped by much greater breakthroughs.

That's what we need now - original thought, not generated through reductive regurgitation.

We have to act our way into the world we think we want and let the rest follow.