One of the precious oddities of life: meeting someone, having just one (often apparently innocuous-at-the-time) conversation with them, and still thinking regularly about that conversation years or decades later. Like a comet passing through your life.
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@nayafia's essay about technical conversations (https://nadiaeghbal.com/technical-conversations … ). I had breakfast in 2008 with Harry Collins, a sociologist who coined the related notion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactional_expertise …. I probably think about that conversation every few weeks.1 reply 4 retweets 63 likesShow this thread -
There are dozens - probably hundreds - of similarly impactful conversations in my past. Serendipity is such an important part of life.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
There's a wonderful line in Yeats's THE MUNICIPAL GALLERY REVISITED, one of my favorite poems about friendship and the effect others can have on us, to that effect (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-municipal-gallery-revisited/ …):pic.twitter.com/90mtATWJX8
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