Identifying the Potential for Great Friendships
After my first post, a friend commented to me: “I’d be very interested to hear your process of developing those friendships, from how you identify the potential for a great friendship to how you build it”.  For this post, I’ll focus on the second thing she mentioned – identifying the [...]

What do you think are the ideal qualities in close friendships? What do you think makes a friendship timeless? What makes it transcendent of shared or not-so-shared interests? What qualities have you found both in yourself and in your friends that you think have contributed to the “hitting it off” factor?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about technology – specifically social networking. I’ve been a software developer for the last nine years and I’ve watched with amazement the dramatic changes in [...]