serendipity

  • Accidents happen

    Question: Why were you looking at their data? Answer: Just out of interest to see. We recognize that some of our most significant learning may occur by accident, as a byproduct of some other activity such as task accomplishment, interpersonal interactions, or trial-and-error experimentation. Where informal learning may be sometimes intentional and more possibly planned, incidental…

    Salvador Dali, Chess Set, 1971 (Andrew Russeth/flickr.com)