Serendipity is all about making fortunate discoveries by accident. You can’t automate accidental discoveries, but you can manufacture the conditions in which such events are more likely to occur.
First thought, how my blog has recently connected me to a deceased friend‘s relative. How the previous sentence was the second most emotionaly difficult thing I have wrote on this site, the first being the above mentioned post.
Honestly I really have no idea why I do this. Many of the reasons mentioned in Manufactured Serendipity could apply.