Sure, that wording would be better. I wasn't sure exactly how to say it. I think we tend to do that though for better or worse: we identify new people by one o

Sure, that wording would be better. I wasn't sure exactly how to say it. I think we tend to do that though for better or worse: we identify new people by one or two odd facts we know about them. And that alters how we communicate with them. In another instance at that conference, I asked the guy next to me who he was and he told me his name. He then told me he wrote a series of articles (which I had known about) and immediately my view shifted: oh that guy. And it completely changed the way I interacted because of course now I felt compelled to talk about his articles rather than something else.