This week, I heard from an ex-colleague I hadn’t heard from in a few years. Let’s call him Jeremy. He wrote me a lovely email, referring to a moment I have such a clear memory of. He asked about my health, mentioned that he’d seen I recently had pneumonia. After telling me a little bit about his own life, he tried to sell me a consulting service I absolutely did not need.
There were three strange things about that interaction: I know this person’s writing style pretty well, and, well, he’s a man of few words. This email was a lot more eloquent than the many other emails I’ve received from him. It was also a little odd to receive an email from him out of the blue. We were never quite friends, but we were good colleagues who’d share coffee a handful of times per month.
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