But treating strangers like friends? Isn’t that taking things a little far? Doesn’t that smudge over the lines between inside and outside, company and public, work and pleasu- re? Darn right. That’s the best thing about it. Where obsolete ways of thinking and categories break down, other walls fall too. An open space of encounter and interac- tion is created, the new and unexpected happens. Spontaneity, creativity and joie de vivre find a new home.