Serendipity -

Literally. Take a wrong turn on purpose. Drive to the next town over with no agenda. The best coffee you’ll ever have is behind the unmarked door you walked past a hundred times.

So, the next time the universe throws a wrench in your plans—when the bus is late, when the rain soaks your shoes, when the internet goes out—don't curse the chaos. Serendipity

He didn’t discover it because he was looking for it. He discovered it because he got lost. Literally

Consider the death of the shopping mall or the decline of the downtown office. Urban planners are now desperately trying to re-engineer “collisions”—those unplanned hallway conversations between a graphic designer and a biochemist that, historically, have birthed million-dollar startups. When we work from home in our perfectly efficient pajamas, we don’t overhear the solution to a problem we didn’t know we had. If serendipity is a muscle, it can be exercised. You cannot force it, but you can build a porch for it to land on. The best coffee you’ll ever have is behind