In my line of work, there’s very little leeway to do much else. Everything starts and ends with binary, and few people imagine our lives to be much more past that. We have no loves, no joys, no other interests that cannot be expressed outside of an electronic device.

So when someone has realized that I do, in fact. have other interests, and they engage me in them, I am eternally grateful. Today, I had lunch with a creative that I used to work with who let me hang with the cool kids many years ago.

Because I’m usually tasked with dealing with the tech needs of creatives, I’m usually on the front lines of their problems; printer drivers, screen calibration, finicky applications. While I deal with those, I’ve come to know my people; people free from the structure that my profession seems to embrace.

Those people and those situations have yielded so much enrichment in my life. Excited and energized, I’ve left their presence and created work of my own. It’s something about that energy that’s so different from the tech stuff that nourishes me in a really unique and welcome way.

Moral of the story: your tech person likes more things than computers.