Have you ever heard the same old song on three different radio stations in one day? Or had an acquaintance get mentioned to you three times by different people? Or think of calling someone and they call? Those events are called a synchronicity, which in fancy words is “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection”. Your mind gives the three things a coherence they don’t really deserve, and yet sometimes connecting those things can be powerful. This week Swift’s A Modest Proposal was mentioned to me three times, in three unrelated contexts,…

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