Luck Surface

Calculate your luck surface area. Expand it with five specific moves.

Calculates your luck surface area — the percentage of available serendipity you're actually exposed to — and designs five specific asymmetric moves to expand it. Each move is a different mechanism: broadcast a signal, infiltrate a new room, create a serendipity artifact, curate a connection, or compound an existing asset.

Overview

Luck surface area is the aggregate exposure to serendipitous collisions with opportunities, people, and ideas. It's not random — it's engineered. LuckSurface audits your current patterns and designs five asymmetric moves: low effort, high serendipity potential.

How to use it

  1. Describe your life in detail — where you go, who you know, what you make or share publicly
  2. Add what kind of luck you want more of — opportunities, collaborators, clients, mentors
  3. Optionally note what you already do to put yourself out there
  4. Review each of the five moves and expand the ones that resonate
  5. Start with the 'Start Here' move at the bottom — it's the highest-leverage first step

Example

Scenario: Remote software engineer, feeling professionally invisible

What you do: Describe the routine, the small friend group, the absence of industry events

Result: Current surface: 14%. Invisible wall: professional identity outsourced entirely to employer — no external signal of what you know or care about. Five moves: (1) One technical post per month about something you had to figure out; (2) Next local tech meetup, introduce yourself to one person; (3) Open-source one internal tool with a thoughtful README; (4) One coffee with a former colleague per quarter; (5) Add one line to LinkedIn about what you're interested in next.

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