When I got this new gig, I took some time to say hello to my old employers, coworkers, consultants, and teachers as I stepped away from being a proper architect.
Not surprisingly, I was was the one who benefited the most from such an exercise.
It was certainly nice to mentally relive the nostalgic past, now distant from the stresses of actual practice. And it was good to reconnect with people I had not contacted in years, if not decades.
But the most interesting thing I learned was from a one email that I got from an old professor, who said he took an idea from one of my projects which eventually became part of a class that he taught.
I knew he liked my project because he had used it in one of his books, but to think it actually spun him in a new direction….wow! You never know what you’ll find out when you touch base with old friends!