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by usernamed7 695 days ago
To me it's a matter of fostering serendipity. and a bit ironic that research has shown conferences to be a great place for serendipity to take place, as that's what happened here.

I experienced this kind of situation, where only by chance conversation was a crisis averted, very much at my last FT. So much that I'm working on a startup for fostering serendipitous communication for remote teams, like private notes from coworkers left on stackoverflow questions (or anything on the web)