One of the best things about this year’s SXSW is meeting up with old friends. At usually goes like this:

1. You say something about SXSW on twitter/Facebook/whatever.
2. Your friend sees it
3. Your friend replies/DMs/messages you, “hey, I’m here, too! Want to meet up?”
4. There is an exchange of determining where you are and who wants to meet where.
5. Meet up and talk about old times.

I caught up with an old colleague I haven’t seen in 6+ years who is now running a political big data consultancy, a friend from high school who works for Pixar and was there to premiere something at SXSWFilm, an old client that I haven’t seen in 3+ years who now works on a startup–THAT was great!