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Role of Luck in Fragmented World and Social Networking


As we become a severely fragmented society - in terms of how we live, our attention spans, multiple projects and multi-tasking, fragmented families and communities, fragmented networks, fragmented roles - the role of luck in our lives change - hugely.

In a fragmented world it is almost critical to get in touch with other fragment who can help us professionally or in business. But such a connection may well be impossible to come by in most instance. The social networking brings together lot of people but at the same time fragments it further. This is actually the problem of networking.

Being able to convert the social media relationships into real-world relations would be critical in future. Blueprint of which is simple: reach out to an interesting fragment and convert that fragment into real world relationships for mutual benefit.

What we cannot rule out is the role of luck here. First of all, we have to reach out to the right fragments. Which would be the most appropriate fragment would be purely luck. Also, other considerations like place, time zones, travel, interests, motives, characters etc should also match up. Its very hard to do come by - hence the importance of luck again. A wrong fragment can send you on a wild goose chase wasting your precious time and resource.

So basically more fragmented we are more we have to rely on luck to guide us through.

Off the top of my head these are something simple rules I can think off:

1. There are no accidents

2. Due-diligence before reaching out

3. Heuristics will definitely help


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