# Successful approaches to designed serendipity focus on small information quanta * Wikipedia you can change a single line * In open source software you can do something useful by changing a single line of code * One of the [[Polymath Project]]’s principles was that comments should be as short as possible. This is the principle behind [[Micropublications: a Semantic Model for Claims, Evidence, Arguments and Annotations in BIomedical Communications]] and [[Polyplexus]] and why Alex Danco asks [[Can Twitter Save Science?]] However, small information quanta is not sufficient. Small information quanta cannot hold very much context. Therefore the *interfaces* between and *discoverability* of the quanta are important. [[Polyplexus]] does a terrible job of this. ### Related * Does [[Adam Marblestone]] have an opinion about how to design quanta * What are the quanta you would want to answer [[What would a map of all the research happening in the world look like?]] <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Successful+approaches+to+designed+serendipity+focus+on+small+information+quanta) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Successful+approaches+to+designed+serendipity+focus+on+small+information+quanta)