For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn’t enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that’s exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He’s the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool

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    1 year ago

    Haha nice! These things have a funny way of happening.

    I met a colleague of Paul Erdos by walking up to a complete stranger on a train and simply asking if they were a mathematician and if they knew Paul Erdos. He turned out to have a lot of lovely anecdotes to share.

    I’m not sure what possessed me to specifically do that, but I probably won’t do it a second time and risk losing the 100% hit rate for colleague-of-Paul-Erdos divination.