This is so cool! In the book that I described in my blog post, the author (Joe Keohane) explains that sometimes people need a sort of "permission" to engage, yo

This is so cool! In the book that I described in my blog post, the author (Joe Keohane) explains that sometimes people need a sort of "permission" to engage, your events fulfilled that. Another well accepted context for strangers to engage is when something bad or disastrous happens. Better not wait until that time, but it is easy to understand that boundaries fall away when the going gets tough. It is a survival mechanism.