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Serendipity vs. iPhone

Why stumbling upon something meant something

Paul Greenberg
Human Parts
Published in
3 min readSep 10, 2022

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Illustration from Goodbye Phone, Hello World

Here are some moments from before the iPhone:

Due to a train strike I have ended up in Luxembourg. I have no friends, no connections, no map of the place. I meet a Canadian who is about my age at a youth hostel. We decide to go to a discotheque. We start following signs for a disco…

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Paul Greenberg
Human Parts

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org