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August 3, 2009

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The Stupidity of Serendipity

Having just two weeks ago posted a link to what I think is a reasonably intelligent take on the importance of serendipitous discoveries in old and new media, Damon Darlin’s not-quite-an-essay in the NYT is by comparison offensively stupid.

Let’s just juxtapose these two excerpts:

  1. When we walk into other people