HELLO.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME you struck up conversation with a total stranger, and found out something really cool about them and, in the process, about yourself, too?

What would you say if someone invited you to a thing called '16N?' In which people who did not know one another in your city could meet. In real life, of course. But briefly. And once.

Would that be interesting?

Or odd?

If odd, let's think about that. Let's think about why. Are real life serendipitous encounters too intense? Hm. As a designer, I really miss chance encounters and randomness being more normal than it is now. I dislike googling people ahead of meeting them, or fearing they might know too much about me.

I was thinking about that a lot, here in my base in Phnom Penh.

Then I thought, 'Hm. What about if 16 vectors crossed paths once? That would be a point. A point in time. In other words, if we get a bit metaphysical, that would be a moment. A particular kind. A magic moment.

Could we engineer that? An 'a-ha' if 16 of us convened, all at once?

'N'.

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