Just replied to an email from a colleague from my college days, and it made me think about getting to know people in new contexts. I use the word colleague, but he was a friend, though never very close. We knew each other at the boathouse, without spending much time together for other reasons. But he’s in San Francisco now, and I’m looking forward to seeing if a shared experience 10 (!) years in the past helps connect the dots now. In a meeting at work today, my co-worker was surprised to be introduced to someone he knew in college. This person worked for another company we’re talking to, and the context was so different (meeting under NDA vs. college frat party), it really got us talking afterwards. How much do people grow up or change? Speaking for myself, well, I don’t know. What about you?