11 pm and I’m just getting back to my hotel room. I left here at 7am.I’m at at a several day work face to face meeting. The content has been great. So many smart people, so many ideas.. Better than the content has been the contact. As i said yesterday, its been really good… And useful re-connecting with many old friends/colleagues at both a technical and personal level.. Its also been really, fun and useful meeting new people in my adopted organization. My favorite thing, however, has been meeting folks I’ve been working with on a monthly, weekly or even daily basis face to face for the first time. I work with folks from all over the world that I’ve . Never met.. There’s just something powerful about sitting across from that same person over a beer, cup of coffee or mountain dew. I cant really put my finger on why its so valuable.. But it is.. The information bandwidth is certainly higher.. But it something more.. Somehow you. Really Grok someone better after sharing the same air with them, i guess…
Grok.. Now theres a word i haven’t used in a long time.. Its from a robert heinlen scifi book called strange in a strange land.. It means to really understand something or soemone at a new level .. You Grok ?

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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