DryMind

Need for Serendipity engines

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. - Douglas Adams

  • We revisit handful of webpages.
  • We need serendipity engines - like search engines.
    • Wikipedia, Zettelkasten, StumbleUpon etc are serendipity engines.
  • Aggregators have overpowered serendipity engines because we find comfort in Confirmation bias.
  • Our imagination is limited by our experiences. Since imagination leads to queries, we need to expose ourselves to varied experiences to push our imagination. See Infinite Buffet

Social Media as echo chambers


Reference What do we have to lose?

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Need for Serendipity engines